Word: toughers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Weld recently urged U.S. Attorneys to get tougher on corruption, he ran into cynical replies. Says a Justice official: "Their reaction was to laugh and say, 'What about your boss? Why don't you start at the Attorney General level...
...General announced that he intends to fly off Wednesday on a scheduled week- long trip to Latin America to seek greater cooperation with U.S. antidrug programs. Yet Meese is not in the best position to pressure foreign leaders. When other U.S. officials have asked Mexico, for example, to get tougher on its officials accused of drug corruption, the response has been disconcerting. After citing Meese's problems, some Mexican diplomats have added with a sardonic smile, "It's like Wedtech. These cases are very difficult to make...
This is a dangerous and potentially deadly time to be a retailer in America. The number of stores has grown at a rate far faster than the U.S. population, setting off a competitive battle as wild and unpredictable as a Wrestlemania spectacular. As the grappling gets rougher and tougher in an industry where takeovers and leveraged buyouts have become everyday events, some contestants are being tossed out of the ring and others are being dismembered or gobbled up by competitors...
...compete with El Salvador's state bank and to return to private hands the country's major export industries. There is widespread speculation that ARENA will use its new power in the Assembly to stop investigations of human-rights abuses. Above all, ARENA has vowed to take a tougher approach to defeating El Salvador's guerrillas, going so far as to declare that it may send home some 55 U.S. military advisers who have worked to improve the Salvadoran army's dismal human-rights record...
...hands-on chief executive, thoroughly involved in planning and now plotting takeover strategy. He oversees a staff of 120 in Los Angeles and is constantly on the phone to Griffin Co. President Michael Nigris, who directs 100 employees in New York City. Griffin the businessman is a tougher character than the talk-show host who sympathetically listened to an endless parade of guests. To beat Donald Trump, Griffin will have to be as aggressive behind the scenes as he was agreeable in front of the camera...