Word: harder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...partner at the investment firm Touche Ross said, "Any time the after-tax consequences are greater, management looks harder at expenses." In other words, if Maison Robert's corporate customers couldn't deduct their $16 desserts, Maison Robert would have to lower its prices. That's what the free market is all about...
...husband had seemed able to weather the punishing year, but Kitty found the return to stricken Massachusetts far harder to take. She sorely missed the attention and glitter of the campaign. In February, a few months after the election defeat, she decided on her own to declare publicly that she was an alcoholic. Two years earlier, Kitty had revealed a lifetime dependence on diet amphetamines...
BUSINESS: The Big Three automakers face harder going...
...give them a lot of credit," Cleary said. "It's going to be harder this year than last year...
...Five employees have been slain since. The paper was bombed twice, most recently in September; the $2.5 million damage tally included destruction of the computer system and presses. Yet El Espectador has not missed a day of publication and has kept up the drumbeat against the cartels. Even harder hit was the country's second oldest newspaper, the Bucaramanga-based Vanguardia Liberal, which supported the government's crackdown and was all but destroyed in an Oct. 15 bombing. It too kept on publishing. "We are not heroes," says El Espectador's slight, bespectacled acting editor in chief Jose Salgar...