Word: tougher
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...years has jumped back and forth capriciously from tightening the nation's money supply in an effort to slow inflation, to running the printing presses full blast when the economy seemed in need of a lift. But its new chairman, Paul Volcker, seems committed to a more consistent and tougher policy. Last week the Fed lifted its discount rate, the amount that it charges for loans to commercial banks, from 10% to a record 10½%, suggesting that even in the face of a business slowdown the board is at last determined to halt the excessive expansion of money and credit...
...Carter's ambitious fuel program could have been much tougher...
However poor, new homeowners may be lucky. It used to be that people who could not afford to buy a house at least could afford to rent a comfortable apartment. But that has become much tougher lately. The rent of a nice two-bedroom apartment in Manhattan is now more than $1,000 a month, vs. $700 two years ago; in Chicago, it is $670, vs. $540; and in Los Angeles, $700, vs. $400. "It's a closet," sighs Olga Flores, a Houston social worker, of her $350-a-month one-bedroom apartment, which she found only after...
...House Ways and Means Committee approved a tougher tax or oil-company "windfall" profits than Jimmy Carter had proposed. The President's plan would have let oil companies keep 29¢ to 34¢ of each extra dollar in profit that they make from the decontrol of domestic oil prices that Carter began June 1. The Ways and Means bill reduces the figure to between 17¢ and 23¢. It is likely to be watered down in the Senate, and end about where Carter wanted...
Ever since the crash, air travelers have been worried, as never before, about the quality of aircraft-mechanic training. The fact is that airplane mechanics must meet federal license requirements that are in some ways tougher than those for pilots. A weekend light-plane flyer needs only a minimum of 35 hours' flight experience before taking the test for his federal pilot's license. Even to replace a wheel, legally, on a single-engine plane, a mechanic needs a Federal Aviation Administration airframe and power plant rating (known as an "A&P"), which requires a minimum...