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...Ashdown grew restless with diplomatic life. According to friends, guilt about social ills back home got the better of him. In the military he had found many fellow Marines who were virtually illiterate. As he puts it, "Some were tougher, some stronger, some more intelligent, some more decent. Yet by accident of birth I was commanding them and not they me." He and his wife Jane settled in the Somerset town of Yeovil, from which Ashdown was elected to Parliament as a Liberal in 1983. After the 1987 collapse of the Liberal alliance with the Social Democrats -- mainly centrist defectors...
...Jewel and Lucky, were snapped up in buyouts during the past decade. The survivors face more competition than ever before. It is not uncommon to find three or four national chains -- not to mention a mass merchandiser like K Mart or Wal-Mart -- competing in the same territory. With tougher times ahead, grocery chains are turning to computers to gain a competitive edge...
Against an inferior squad such as BC, Harvard can afford 15 minute lapses. However, in Ivy League competition, the Crimson will have a tougher time if it doesn't play 60 minutes of hard lacrosse...
...space scientists are having a tougher time marketing themselves to the U.S. Though officials at NASA have expressed interest in Russian space technology, a lingering cold war mentality, especially in the Defense Department, has kept any major deals from going through. Deputy Secretary of Defense Donald Atwood and other hard-line officials have argued that it would be a mistake to keep Russia's missile factories and space reactor plants in business. "We don't want to encourage them," Atwood told a congressional panel recently. After all, missiles can be used to launch nuclear warheads as well as satellites...
...feeling is that Paul Tsongas would be tougher for George Bush to defeat than Bill Clinton," said Hudnut, a Republican...