Word: tougher
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...this weekend the Crimson will have to improve on its previous performances in order to impress an even tougher crowd—the Ivy League...
...desirable, however. Pork loin is pleasant, although the meat should have been cooked a little more for my taste. (The prospect of tapeworm can put a damper on even the most charming dinner.) The lamb is inconsistent—some slices are fine, others are just plain gristly and tougher than an Ec10 midterm...
...Moreover, China's underdeveloped legal system makes a policeman's job tougher, encouraging him to make up the rules as he goes?or do nothing at all. Wang, the professor at Public Security University, travels around China lecturing cops on crowd-control techniques, including what to do when facing demonstrators. At what point should police use truncheons? Or guns? Or simply step aside and allow a march to go on? In China, the answer depends on how much pressure political leaders are under at the time. Says Wang: "The police can't make these decisions. They have to keep calling...
...change, "we can take strategic decisions faster and with better preparation," he told shareholders in June. Unintentionally, the change also makes him harder to remove. "Deutsche Bank's particular dilemma is that the CEO stands alone," says Ulrich Hocker of the German Shareholder Protection Association, which advocates tougher corporate governance. Whatever the outcome, the case is a blow to Ackermann and can only make his plan for change harder to implement. A sympathetic Frankfurt banker said: "Imagine how distracting it must be to try to talk about serious things like new capital requirements when you know that everyone listening...
...stand each other? As a Bush adviser said, "Things change." And Republican Senator Chuck Hagel added: "The forces of reality have set in." Reality, though, has been biting both sides. The U.S.: with every dead soldier in Iraq, the war becomes a harder sell at home. It becomes tougher still when the White House asks Congress for another $87 billion and is told that $42 billion has to be rustled up by other countries. Nor is it easy to wake up to the fact that ultrasmart weapons, though wonderful for winning wars, are useless against Baathist thugs and water shortages...