Word: toughers
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...achieve it, Senate races attract stronger challengers. Senators also are more newsworthy. Unlike representatives, they do not themselves provide the bulk of the information that constituents receive. Moreover, Senators are expected to maintain a higher profile on the great issues of the day. For all these reasons Senators face tougher elections than modern representatives...
HARVARD may be marginally tougher than Dartmouth at football, but when it comes to campus police, Dartmouth wins hands down...
...pirate knows, dividing the booty can be tougher than finding it. So Professional Treasure Hunter Mel Fisher has wisely relied on a high-tech mediator. Last year Fisher discovered the sunken loot of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha, a Spanish galleon that sank off the Florida coast in 1622. He retrieved 118,343 items, including emeralds, gold bars and silver coins, with a potential worth estimated by Fisher at $170 million. Last week, after a 22- member committee assigned a value to each item, Fisher fed the data into an IBM computer, which apportioned the goods among...
...company, Texas Instruments, has stubbornly refused to give up the race with the Japanese to make ever more densely packed memory chips. Its experimental, 4 million-bit chip contains components smaller than one micron, or .000039 of an inch. Now that the company has created a superchip, the tougher task will be to manufacture them by the millions before the wily Japanese can catch...
...Princeton has a weak cornerback we might pick on," Connolly said. "But we're going to stick with the same game plan we used against Dartmouth. Our schedule gets tougher and tougher from here on out--we need to get this game under our belts...