Word: toughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Joanne B. Ciulla, a Wharton lecturer specializing in ethics, who was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard's B-School. "At Harvard there's much more structure. There's the sense that you all have to get the same things done so that there's equitable teaching. That's tough--really tough...
...tough month...
...Cameron had the tough job of filling Cole's wrestling shoes. He dropped two matches, but flew home with a 9-6 win over a Wilkes' wrestler...
Congress loves to get tough with foreigners when it writes trade bills, but it hates to get tough with itself when it sets tax rates and funds expensive programs. For his part, the President continues to bank on the wishful thinking that the economy can grow its way out of the red; he refuses to face up to the reality that spending cuts and higher taxes are needed to make real progress toward reducing the $155.1 billion budget deficit...
Since the INS's get-tough edict took effect, the number of Central Americans seeking asylum at the INS processing center near Bayview has plunged from a high of 967 a day to 313 a week. Of these, only three arrivals, or about 1% of the total, were granted asylum. Noting the drop in applications, the INS put off plans to build a tent city to hold as many as 5,000 detainees and cautiously declared the new policy a success...