Word: toughened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Faculty unanimously passed a motion made by Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 to toughen the definitions of "minimum academic requirements" and "satisfactory academic record...
...look at what the challenges were going to be." Indeed, she encountered a deeply troubled organization--far more troubled, according to a source close to Mrs. Dole, than she appreciated. Since the mid 1980s, in response to the onslaught of AIDS, the FDA had begun to toughen its inspection of blood banks. In the process, its field inspectors found widespread and potentially dangerous problems with the way the Red Cross tracked blood donors and tested blood for infectious agents. In 1988, under FDA pressure, the Red Cross agreed to assert tighter control. But by the time Mrs. Dole arrived three...
...would be more convincing if it were linked to some concern for their physical survival. The most destructive feature of divorce, many experts argue, is the poverty that typically ensues when the children are left with a low-earning mother, and the way out of this would be to toughen child-support collection and strengthen the safety net of supportive services for low-income families--including childcare, Medicaid and welfare...
...innocent, boyish humor which will appear later in his awkward pursuit of the senator's aide Betsy, the angelic vision in white. We see him inexplicably frequenting the porn theaters of 42nd Street, then deciding in the name of cleaning things up to take up target practice and toughen his flesh via fire. Finally, he has transformed, or, more accurately, his mind has turned inside out for all to see. With a dramatically different physical appearance, Travis now packs weapons, most notably a gun he can launch from within his shirt into his right hand via a homemade spring mechanism...
...last-ditch effort to toughen the bill, Councillor Kathleen L. Born attempted to amend it to place cigarette displays behind counters yet again...