Word: toughers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...done more drinking in New Haven bars than he has in his two years there, not including the advanced-standing credit the admissions office gave him. "That's right,"Norman's friend Mike chimes in, sensing an easy few points scored in the olde rivalry. "Academics are a lot tougher than they are at your school," he says, never mentioning Yale's favorite unspoken word. "There's academic excellence all around you at your school. I'm surprised it's not contagious to more people...
...another company. Such a step would make the merger target bigger and thus tougher to take over. Just before the Mobil bid, Marathon announced a tentative deal to purchase the U.S. subsidiary of Husky Oil Ltd., Canada's 14th largest petroleum company...
Professors advocating the new codes stressed to their colleagues that the tougher regulations retain respect for the privacy of individual professors, particularly since they do not empower the new committee on extramural involvements to seek out non-complying professors, but only to review involvements disclosed by Faculty members...
...Sullivan, a few other Independents should win without too much problem. Thomas Danehy, another former mayor, has only one thing to worry about--Donald Fantini, a former school committeeman making his first council bid, ran strong in his school races in Danehy's North Cambridge neighborhood. Still, Danehy is tougher than most city politicians. "Those are his votes, and there's no way he's letting go of them," one friend of the incumbent said last week...
Simplicity is a virtue shared by few government regulations. Yet the concept of crash standards for car bumpers has seemed like sweet reason itself. If sheet metal crumples on impact, why not require automakers to build tougher bumpers? That was the thinking behind Congress's directing the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in 1972 to order stronger bumpers on U.S. cars. Now the NHTSA wonders whether its standards are too costly to manufacturers and car owners and is mulling whether to roll them back. This has set consumer and insurance groups to howling while Detroit is cheering...