Word: tougher
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...defense as one thing that attracted them. Says Steven Nesich, 30, a marketing consultant from Seattle: "The Reaganites have a knee-jerk reaction to defense: 'Build it.' The liberals have a knee-jerk reaction: 'Don't build it.' Hart sees a leaner, tougher defense that would cost us far less and be more effective...
...This wasn't the first time we had played tonight. We've played five of six times in practice. And, to put it bluntly, the competition in practice is tougher than this tonight...
Both the House and Senate agreed to keep strict controls on the export to Communist countries of technology that could have military applications. Customs agents regularly seize illicit shipments of advanced computers and other electronic equipment bound for the Soviet Union. In some respects, the Senate bill is much tougher on the illegal trade than the House version. The Senate voted to give the President authority to ban imports from any foreign company found diverting sensitive American technology to Communist nations...
...voter registration is not the sole province of the Democrats and liberals. Although they face tougher going, the Republicans are also going after new voters. Together, the Reagan Bush reelection camp and the Republican National Committee are planning to spend $10 million in the hopes of registering between two and two and a half million new voters. "There are 53 million unregistered votes out there, and it's a good bet they're not all Black," says campaign aide John Buckley...
Part of the reason for this is the flurry of commission reports that have emerged in the last year bemoaning the decline of the U.S. education system and calling for the reinstitution of tougher curriculum standards at all levels. These ranged from a report commissioned by Reagan himself to ones carried out by several private foundations...