Word: toughers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advocates of gun control said that tougher legislation would greatly decrease the rate of violent crime...
Dukakis' budget calls for increased spending in public education, health care, employment training and public housing. The governor said that revenues to support the increases in human services will come from an estimated 3.3 percent real economic growth and tougher enforcement of tax laws...
Many U.S. record executives prefer a tougher solution. They are urging Congress to force the DAT manufacturers to equip their machines with a computer chip that will block the copying of prerecorded music altogether. But while Congress considers the matter in its usual deliberate fashion, some DAT makers are accelerating their assault on the U.S. market. Their reasoning: if enough Americans buy DAT recorders, Congress will be loath to interfere with how they are used...
...most pervasive and powerful communications medium. It is a venture rich with possibilities and fraught with pitfalls. TV has traded so wantonly in its past -- from documentary retrospectives on the so-called Golden Age to those proliferating "reunions" of old series -- that each new look backward has a tougher job justifying its existence. Dusting off the old kinescopes again is not enough. "All too often," Newman comments at one point, "television is an eye but not a brain." Unfortunately, the same is true of this briskly watchable but ultimately disappointing series...
...withdrawal from Afghanistan, but he declined to do so unless Reagan cut off aid to the Afghan rebels. There was no agreement, either, on Nicaragua or the Persian Gulf. Commenting on the lack of progress in these areas, Administration officials pointed out that in private meetings Gorbachev was much tougher than the charming image he offered to the public. "What you have gained is a guy you can talk to," said one Reagan aide, "but when it comes to substantive changes, forget...