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...panel laid out the action it wants, the first time a scientific body has issued recommendations on the subject. Basically, they add up to taking out what the panel called "insurance" against the worst-case scenario of global warming. Among other things, the commission urged the White House to toughen the inadequate energy plan that it unveiled in February. To achieve a 30% increase in automobile fuel efficiency, the panel called for "tax incentives" or regulation, the latter a notion that makes the President flinch. The report also suggested raising overall automobile mileage standards from the current level...
...Faculty Council voted Wednesday to toughen up restrictions on students taking classes whose schedules overlap...
...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...