Word: toughened
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...impressed by the sympathetic coverage of the recent alleged crime of violence against a female student and the report on MIT's plan to toughen its alcohol policy (News, Feb. 6). So wrapped up in pride at the responsible reporting of my school's newspaper was I that reading the headline "Students Battle Blues" completely took me by surprise. In your report on depression in the Harvard community, depression, a mental illness which has a lifetime epidemiological prevalence of 5 percent in the U.S. population, was portrayed as an unseemly response which some people facing a bad set of circumstances...
...enormous gamble, the result of a fierce White House battle. While Clinton had for days been urged by adviser Mickey Kantor and others to toughen his denial, the Monday morning statement was finally worked out in a post-midnight strategy session with former deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes and Hollywood imagineer Harry Thomason. Ickes, the street-smart infighter who had steered Clinton's re-election campaign only to be bumped out of a second-term job, flew in from California and went straight to the White House. Ickes' prescription for the President: Look the people straight...
...newsstands when Diana was killed, however, featured several candid shots of the princess with Fayed, trumpeted by the cover line DI GOES SEX-MAD. The issue was pulled by a number of newsstands after her death.) Dan Schwartz, editorial director of the more freewheeling Globe, also promised to toughen standards. "We're going to become more conservative about our assessment of what will offend people, because we have to," he said. "People's consciousness of what is paparazzi and what isn't has been raised...
...reason why, in a sluggish political summer, when Washington is competing with Mars and Mike Tyson for some quality time with the rest of America, Congress is going after crime again. In May the House passed a bill that would give $1.6 billion to states that agree to toughen their handling of kids who commit serious felonies, in part by making it easier to try them as adults. Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee was pushing forward on a similar bill, in the hope of bringing it to a vote this month. "People are expecting us to do something about...
...There are a lot of hurdles for the FDA, some impossible burdens," Kessler said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." "This seems to be a step backward." Congressmen, who have to pass legislation to make the proposed settlement law, are also picking at the terms. "We need to toughen this deal," said Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden Monday on ABC's Good Morning America. "There's going to be some major rewriting on this agreement...