Word: toughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...road to the Ivy championship may be as tough as driving uptown on New York City's Fifth Avenue. But hey, if they can make it there...
...government invariably operates at a loss. In order to finance the massive fiscal deficits that inevitably result, the government simply orders the Central Bank, which lacks the autonomy to determine the money supply that our Federal Reserve has, to print more money. The inflationary tiger, once unleashed, proves awfully tough to tame...
Sometimes the push and pull between tough tactics and constitutional requirements result in a compromise. For years, drug dealers had made Chicago's public housing projects their roosting ground, selling from apartments and raking the hallways with gunfire during turf wars. Last September the Chicago Housing Authority launched "Operation Clean Sweep." Housing authority agents and police made surprise apartment visits looking for unauthorized residents, many of them alleged drug dealers who had moved in with girlfriends. But some inspectors tended to treat tenants like students in a dormitory, demanding that visitors leave by midnight and nosing through drawers, in effect...
...Crimson will also face some tough non-league opponents this season, including the Connecticut Huskies...
...missed football that much," says Collins. "I thought it was a tough decision, but it really wasn't I didn't miss anything. Football is just the icing on the cake...