Word: toughened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Veteran teachers rhapsodize about a kind of Golden Age of liberality and modernity: of the 56 students taking the Oxford Entrance Examinations last month, 18 were specialists in natural sciences (as against five in classics). There is even a martial-arts room in the new Olympic-standard gym -- to toughen, no doubt, the fiber of future powers on and off the Wall...
Professors of even the most notorious gut classes acknowledge that feedback from the CUE guide, students and teaching fellows pressures them gradually to toughen requirements in order to have a more structured course and rid themselves of the dreaded title...
Were NOW and the other groups actually to take that plunge, they could pose a formidable threat in many local and state campaigns. NOW has already flexed its muscles in the state legislatures, frustrating attempts to toughen abortion laws following recent Supreme Court decisions. Joined together with other liberal groups, NOW could very well launch credible--if not successful--runs at national office, even the presidency...
...Toughen auto fuel-efficiency standards...