Word: toughened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Businessmen have been turning to the Administration for helpor at least guidancein holding back inflation, but so far they have received little of either. Nixon's economic game plan foresaw a profit squeeze, which was supposed to toughen management resistance to union demands. According to the plan, this would lead to some big strikes, but ultimately to a decline in pressure for extravagant wage increases. The plan has not worked out the way the Administration had hoped. The strikes have indeed hit, but in many major settlements, management has been forced to capitulate to inflationary...
...Harvard must regroup, toughen itself mentally, for revenge at the Heptagonals a month from today in the same place. Mike Koerner and Marshall Jones must recover from injuries...
...Court reminded Congress that it has full power to toughen the law. But even if it does not, many legal experts feel that the ruling will not encourage wholesale new draft dodging. For one thing, the decision does not affect the status of a man who flees to Canada to avoid either registration or induction; he can be prosecuted whenever he returns. And few U.S. males are likely to regard the threat of criminal prosecution as any less real because it is limited to five, instead of 13 years. Concludes U.C.L.A. Law Professor Michael Tigar, "It's simply...