Word: toughers
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...whether soothing words will help ease the Brazilian church's other chronic problem: a manpower shortage. There are only 13,000 priests-40% of them foreigners-in a nation of 120 million people. Because many of the most outspoken activist priests are foreigners, the regime is proposing a tougher immigration law that could cause serious trouble for the missionaries. Though many Brazilians contend that the celibacy requirement is to blame for the difficulty in recruiting priests, the Pontiff believes that a loss of priestly identity is at the root of the problem. With his visit, the Pope offered...
...tougher and more wary. That is why the joint statement issued in Rome went straight to the problems of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the American hostages in Iran and the Middle East peace negotiations. That is why Carter fired off his letter to West Germany's Helmut Schmidt to make sure of German support for new nuclear missiles in Europe...
...time of stress, economic policy may need more psychological input than mathematical analysis. Our very economic success also makes it tougher to pick up the nation's economic tremors quickly. Treasury Spokesman Joseph Laitin points out that we do not have the foreclosures, soup lines, dispossessions and other instant aftershocks from economic swings that used to send signals racing through the political system. Letdowns are more gentle, often hard to detect in the salubrious environment of the Oval Office...
Ronald Reagan has based his triumphant campaign partly on both his criticism of Jimmy Carter's "weakness" as Commander in Chief and his own promise that he would be tougher in the conduct of diplomacy and defense. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott examines the outlines of the Reagan foreign policy that is emerging in the campaign...
...just can't hack it") and thinks the Air Force is losing too many skilled mechanics too fast, thereby burdening those who remain with the task of instructing trainees. The prescription for the whole problem, says Loman, is better pay. "They could cure the retention difficulty and be tougher on whom they let in." And maybe keep Sergeant Loman in a job he is not anxious to give...