Word: toughly
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With only a few weeks to go before he heads into retirement, Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson is wrestling with a tough and bristly problem: keeping defense spending from skittering far ahead of the Administration's $38 billion estimate for the current fiscal year. Engine Charlie found at the year's opening (July 1) that, with the increasing complexity of weapons pushing costs upward, money was pouring out at the rate of $40 billion a year. He ordered cuts of 100,000 in military manpower and 53,000 in Defense Department civilian employment. Last week Engine Charlie tightened...
Strauss sent a driver to haul the reluctant general back, explained in equally tough terms that he himself often had to wait half an hour or more for his boss, Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and thought nothing of it. Then Strauss, who has a flair for the dramatic gesture to point a moral, sacked General Müller-Hillebrand and gave a one-word explanation of his action: "Insubordination." German newspapers seemed delighted...
...personnel and press boss at General Electric, Vice President Lemuel R. Boulware, 62, was one of the most controversial labor-relations managers in the history of a new art. A tough, trap-jawed Kentuckian, Boulware was a hard bargainer during contract negotiations and never failed to point out what a company like G.E. did for its employees. Many businessmen considered "Boulwarism" a smart strategy for combating Big Labor, imitated it widely, even though unions bitterly hated...
...Finance Minister's increasingly tough stand had the support of many Cabinet members and a large segment of Congress Party M.P.s. Even Krishnama-chari's personal political enemy, Home Minister Pandit Pant, has been privately buttonholing M.P.s to warn them that by jumping headlong into foreign affairs problems that do not concern India, the country has needlessly alienated those countries best prepared to help it, i.e., the U.S., England, West Germany. Pant's foreign-policy solution: stay with neutralism but stop meddling...
SAFETY VIOLATIONS by truckers are worrying ICC, which is pushing to bar six of the offending truck lines from highways, plans to get tough with all lines. In nationwide spot check, ICC inspectors surveyed 50,000 trucks, stopped about 25% because they looked or sounded unsafe. Closer examination showed that 88% of them violated at least one safety rule governing interstate trucking and that 19% were in hazardous condition...