Word: toughest
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Affirmative action was and remains one of U.S. justice's toughest calls: "Split almost exactly down the middle, the Supreme Court last week offered a Solomonic compromise...rigid quotas...were forbidden, but...race might legitimately be an element in judging [university applicants]...Writing six different opinions totaling 154 pages, the Justices were as torn [as] the rest of the nation. The case had attracted 61 amicus curiae briefs, [the most ever submitted]...Three times the opinions were sent to the printer only to be pulled back for additions, deletions and revisions. The version finally made public was the fourth. [Justice...
...time, it seemed to many people like a good idea. In the wake of several brutal murders by former convicts, California enacted the toughest "three strikes" law in the nation. Any criminal with a serious or violent prior felony would automatically have his sentence doubled for a second conviction and, on a third felony conviction, would be put away for 25 years to life. But the 1994 statute, endorsed by 72% of California voters in a ballot initiative, had troubling consequences. The courts became clogged with the three-strike cases of nonviolent criminals. (One man got 25 years to life...
...year-old father of four plans to return to Boston's toughest neighborhoods. With his newly-acquired master's degree from the Harvard School of Education in hand, Ruth hopes to begin a program designed to link schools and businesses together with the hope of finding quality jobs for students...
...Factor. In 1986 she masterminded a hostile buyout at Warnaco and took the company public in 1991. As a mogul, she helicopters from her Park Avenue headquarters to a mansion in the Hamptons, New York's summer-resort community. As a manager, Wachner once made a FORTUNE roster of "Toughest Bosses" for her low tolerance for underperformers. "You'd better start firing people," the magazine quoted her telling a newly arrived executive, "so they'll understand you're serious...
...toughest task that the Crimson faces is a psychological one. Harvard hasn't really played a good game all year, while the Colossus of College Park certainly has. Consequently, it will be very easy for the Harvard players to become emotionally defeated this afternoon--especially if Maryland gets off to a quick lead...