Word: tougher
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...goes well beyond explanation, the reporters agreed, and discussions of policy can sometimes make the journalist’s job tougher...
...friends appreciated my love for Bob, but my new passion was tougher on my family. I insisted on playing Dylan in the car, and although they liked a few songs, it was the voice that led my brother to shout “turn that shit off,” and my dad to craft a dead-on Dylan impression that sent us all into hysterics—but worried me by its implied disrespect...
...defense and then pivot to more hospitable domestic issues. Bruce Reed of the Democratic Leadership Council wrote about a “trust gap”—a legacy of Vietnam and the Iranian hostage crisis—that pushes fearful voters into the arms of the tougher “daddy party” Republicans. “Me too” on defending America is an invitation to defeat, and Democrats need to show how their ideas would actually do a better job both of destroying current terrorists and preventing future terrorists. And we should spend...
...teachers, school administrators--to reach their primary audience. Along with weekend shows aimed at family audiences, these theaters subsist on weekday performances for school groups. But getting schools to commit to a field trip to the theater--instead of, say, a day of preparing for standardized tests--is becoming tougher in the age of No Child Left Behind. Then there are the morals monitors, who sometimes balk at more adventuresome children's material. When the Dallas Children's Theater three years ago staged Laurie Brooks' Deadly Weapons, a play about teen violence, the Fort Worth school district stayed away because...
...much fun: there's a Congress and an army of interest groups to be tended. Bush was successful at first. He passed his tax cuts, his No Child Left Behind Act; he tilted the playing field toward the needs and desires of corporate America. He will have a tougher time getting his way in a second term because of the soaring budget and trade deficits--which, taken together, economists call the current-accounts deficit. "This is the trap door for the economy," says Robert Shapiro, a moderate Democratic economist. "We will soak up more than 80% of the world...