Word: toughers
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...court declined to allow new limits on what pornographers may say, it did not object to tougher limits on where they may say it. The court voted 7 to 2 to uphold a zoning ordinance passed by the small Seattle suburb of Renton (pop. 32,000) that prohibited the showing of explicit films in theaters within 1,000 ft. of a school, church or residence. The law was acceptable, said Justice William Rehnquist, because it served the legitimate governmental purpose of preserving the quality of urban life while allowing reasonable alternative locations to the theater operators...
Rough as last week's revelations were on NASA, tougher times may lie ahead. The Rogers commission has scheduled for this week two days of public hearings at which key officials involved in the launch decision, as well as some of the experts who opposed the go-ahead, are expected to testify. Predicted one source close to the commission: "There will be a hanging." That assessment may be too harsh, but clearly the full story of why Challenger and its crew had been sent on a doomed mission remains to be told...
WITH THE POSSIBLE exception of Attorney General Edwin Meese III, New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch more than any other American politician has openly advocated tougher penalties for violent crime. On this issue, Democrat Koch falls for the unconvincing Neo-Con attacks on the criminal justice system...
...expected a tougher match," Darius Pandole, the Crimson's number three player, said...
...ensure that people of modest means could obtain home mortgages, the FHA has provided mortgage insurance to 50 million homeowners who might otherwise have been unable to buy houses. Critics of the Administration plan feared that if private companies took over the functions of the FHA, they might set tougher standards for mortgage insurance and exclude more people from home ownership. Disposing of the FHA, said Warren Lasko, executive vice president of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America, would be tantamount "to selling the American home buyer down the river...