Word: tougher
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...pair of infantry-bound cadets swig beer and shake off their doubts. What, after all, could be tougher than West Point, where failure to have your books arranged by descending height on your desk can earn you hours of forced marching in the rain? "That's how they get us fired up for Iraq," says one. "After four years here, anything's better." Another suspects that for all the training, they still don't know what they are in for. "West Point is an academic institution, not a training ground," he says. "I think a lot of us are going...
...fire and brimstone is part of the spd's effort to woo back voters disillusioned by the government's own economic reforms. Last Friday, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder himself joined the apocalyptic debate by calling on his ministers to examine whether hedge funds should be subject to tougher regulation. The remarks are striking, given that the same government authorized hedge funds to operate in Germany only last year. The immediate pretext for Schröder's change of heart was last week's ouster of Werner G. Seifert, the long-serving chief executive of the German stock exchange...
...says both colleges have plans to expand their campuses into the surrounding neighborhoods, making his job as liaison between the City of Boston and the colleges even tougher...
...wasn’t easy growing up in the South Boston, where he learned to deal with tough streets and tougher people. Still, he worked his way up to Suffolk University on Beacon Hill for his bachelor’s degree and then into the police force...
Assistant Coach Jared Frayer also attended the competition and earned a third-place finish. He dominated the early-round matches, beating Cliff Moore 6-0, 1-0, and T.J. Enright 3-0, 6-0. Eric Larkin proved to be a tougher competitor, but Frayer eked out s 0-4. 7-2, 1-0 win. He also lost a close match to Jared Lawrence...