Word: toughing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What impressed the most about this personable team was the way the players handled the loss. It was disappointing for them, but they bounced back to win several tough matches to earn a share of the Ivy title...
...next important test will be the Administration's position on proposed revisions of the Clean Air Act, which the White House has promised to announce by the end of this month. Environmentalists want Bush to back, among other things, tough new limits on smokestack emissions of sulfur dioxide, a major cause of acid rain. But that could cause a political backlash in states that produce high-sulfur coal, such as Illinois and Pennsylvania. "It's decision- making time for George Bush," says John Adams, head of the Natural Resources Defense Council. "Unless he acts credibly, his environmental image...
Moody, who joined TIME as a correspondent in Bonn in 1982, is no stranger to social unrest. As TIME's Eastern Europe bureau chief from 1983 to 1985, he covered protests by the then illegal Solidarity union. Says Moody: "The riot police in Poland, the ZOMO, can be tough, but at least both they and the demonstrators knew they were Poles, fellow countrymen. In Panama I sense an alienation between the police and the people that may take a long while to overcome...
...January, after the mayor began his campaign for a fifth term, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner warned that it would publish a series of tough "challenges" on the city's problems, ranging from gang warfare to freeway gridlock. "We'll try not to let ((Bradley)) forget he's participating in an election, not a coronation," promised the newspaper. That threat did not sit well with Bradley. The Herald Examiner found itself shut out of the mayor's office: no press releases, no phone conversations, no personal contact -- an invitation, if there ever was one, for reporters to start scraping away...
Princeton will be tough, Joslin said, but not tough enough...