Word: toughing
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...Columbia match, Schossberger had 15 kills, three blocks and two aces. Burger contributed 10 kills and an ace. Anderson added five kills and four blocks. Forman and freshman Christina Smith both added two aces. O'Shea also played tough...
...team cruised to a 15th place finish out of about 70 participating teams in the IC4A Championships. The Crimson beat a tough squad from the University of Pennsylvania for the first time this year, but were in turn defeated by Ivy League opponents Dartmouth and Brown...
Shamir will probably accede to a right-wing coalition whose policies reflect more extreme views than those presented by the last government. Israelis can expect a tough line on the occupied territories. Driven by a vision of a Greater Israel, Shamir has vowed never to relinquish an inch of Biblical Judea and Samaria. But he has always stopped short of going along with more extreme demands for annexation. Instead he now embraces the Camp David formula he rejected in 1978, which would grant the Palestinians a semblance of autonomy. That concession sounds to most Arabs like little more than...
Hostile or friendly, Schmidt's proposals indicated that he thought the school deserved a resounding F. Declaring that the twelve-year-old institution "was not reaching its potential," he abruptly named a new dean: Michael Levine, 47, a tough-minded professor of management studies who was formerly chief executive of New York Air. Levine, whom Schmidt chose without consulting the faculty search committee, succeeds economist Burton Malkiel, 56, who resigned last year after strengthening the school's economics program. Schmidt is slashing the popular department of organizational behavior, which teaches the techniques of compromise and consensus building, by declaring that...
...they mature, they'll get better," Gregg says confidently. But there are no Kyle Rotes or Don Merediths in sight here yet. And there may never be, because, along with its punishment, S.M.U. is gulping down a strong dose of preventive medicine. The school has imposed tough standards for jocks, from SAT admission scores (about 900) to monitoring players' academic performance and mandatory disclosure of their finances. The aim is to create "student- athletes" -- talented players with the smarts to do well academically. The concept is hardly new, but it is rare in the conference, and its feasibility...