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...Missoula County tried persuasion, adopting a voluntary plan that called for avoiding green wood and fires on smoggy days, and installing cleaner stoves. The approach failed. When the county commissioners held public hearings last year on tougher measures, a hastily organized group calling itself the United Woodburners of Missoula County staged a "Right to Burn" march that flaunted placards proclaiming WOODBURNERS ARE WARM PEOPLE. In November the commissioners passed a watered-down set of regulations that empowered local inspectors to slap warnings and then citations carrying fines up to $100 on those who continue to burn wood during a pollution...
Things grew only tougher for Harvard in the final period, a drawn-out affair marked by 43 play stoppages. Face-offs inevitably played a big role, and with the hosts winning three-quarters of them. Blair had that much more to worry about...
...both went to basketball camps during the summer to find the tougher competition our small league of Chicago private schools could not provide. Duncan went to a blue-chip camp in Kentucky that year. He was invited to play there so that college scouts could get a closer look. At the end of the summer he was considered one of the best guards in the state of Illinois...
...Penn Coach Craig Littlepage, things have been a little tougher. They didn't just have a rebuilding job to do in Philadelphia. They had to knock down the old house and start from scratch--completely...
Workers claim that the auto companies are getting tougher in other ways, too. Executives, they say, pit one plant against another, using interplant rivalries to spur production, a tactic called "whipsawing." Says Bob Breece, president of the U.A.W. local at Chevrolet's Flint, Mich., motor division plant: "They come in and say, 'If you don't give concessions we're not going to give you this work or we're going to shut you down.' " Breece's plant is due to close in May or June of next year...