Word: toughers
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Unlike the five other declared candidates, Dukakis argues that the best way to reduce the deficit would be to institute a tougher tax collection plan. The Bay State governor is proposing a multi-faceted approach which includes temporary amnesty for taxpayers and harsher penalties for tax delinquents...
Greenspan's lot may be even tougher than Volcker's was. The new chairman must fend off a recession by keeping interest rates low, but he will come under excruciating pressure to raise them again if the dollar needs rescuing. Any little upward nudge in interest rates, however, is likely to send the stock market into the tank again. When the Fed's open market committee met last week for the first time since the crash, some economists hoped the group might rescind September's discount-rate increase. But no such announcement came. One reason may be that the committee...
...spikers and UConn traded several side-outs and kills, in reaching a 10-10 deadlock. UConn, however, proved just a little tougher at home, capturing...
...Tougher restrictions...
Still, the delegates were not complacent. The theme of the annual conference was "Action for the Third Term," and there was much talk of finding ways to keep the Thatcher revolution from running out of steam. The Tories thus endorsed further cuts in taxes, tougher anticrime measures and new curbs on labor unions...