Word: tougher
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...don’t require binding budgetary constraints. More often than not, the budget figures proposed in these initiatives either underestimate or overestimate projected expenses on projects. The Legislature should be given more freedom to allocate money since situations are always ever-changing. Third, the state can make it tougher for initiatives to qualify for the ballot by requiring more signatures. Five percent is hardly proof of pressing urgency for change...
...beyond that I felt like this was one of my more mentally strong races,” Maludzinski said. “Lindsey Yourman and I really worked together through a lot of the race, and having her right there helped to get me through some of the tougher moments...
...home turf advantage,” Schubert said. “I’m sure for other people it was even tougher, because they’re not used to this shifty, no-breeze sailing...
...thing that we see that really tells us the most about the consumer's financial situation is displaced merchandise. [Customers] fill their baskets; then what they do is take that merchandise out as they pick other things up. When the economy gets tougher, we have to go through that store more frequently. We saw that this year particularly as we got later in the summer...
Other things that the David Project would like to see added at Columbia include a tougher policy to prevent professors from intimidating students, a diversity of academic perspectives that would focus more broadly on the Middle East and the adoption of a single standard for minorities, which would treat Jews like other minorities...