Word: harsher
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Hawaiians realize that their economic growth depends on making tourists feel more secure. Impromptu citizens' groups have lobbied for greater police protection and harsher sentences for criminals. Elderly residents have marched in the streets with banners reading WIPE OUT CRIME IN OUR LIFETIME. Voters this fall elected candidates who promised sweeping changes. After twelve years in office, Mayor Frank Fasi was defeated by Eileen Anderson, an energetic reformer...
...candidates concerned. According to the National Journal of September 13, NCPAC chairman John T. Dolan wanted to support Reagan most aggressively in states where Carter seemed strongest, and therefore launched an advertising campaign critical of Carter's failures to realize promises made in 1976. Some of the commercials made harsher attacks than others, and CBS reportedly cited one particular advertisement to be in poor taste. The broadcasting company refused to air the ad, and rejected all other commercials paid for by any independent political groups...
Breaking rules which tread what one cadet calls "the fine gray line" between the "honor code" and regulations brings harsher punishments. Last year, Fullerton was caught drinking wine in his room and was slapped with 30 hours of "walking" in return. It would have taken months to work it off, he says, but under a little-know academy rule which states that a visiting head of state can grant amnesty for "walking" cadets, a stopover by the Queen of Thailand cut it short...
...government proves to function in a social vacuum, the process of putting it away is more of a problem. Short of war there are words of protest, but in the middle distance the assassin has free rein. The rein might be shortened considerably if the words of protest were harsher or more frequent, or, better still, if they were attached to an economic quarantine. To treat killer governments as pariahs would only be fair, after all, and the purpose of a quarantine is to prevent contagion. To date, however, the world seems to be going on the hope that...
...pattern of such poverty remains widespread; in many regions farm life is even harsher than on Long Chi commune. The most startling revelation in a series of remarkably candid press stories in recent months is that in three decades of rule, the Communist regime has barely begun to improve the lot of a vast number of its peasants. Some regions in the chronically poor provinces such as hilly Guizhou, arid Gansu or often flooded Shandong have not had a single good year since collectivization began in the late 1950s. According to one article, a quarter of the rural population...