Word: harshness
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...application is really harsh," says Ugalde. "It's almost harder than the one to get in here...
With a backhand return in a harsh game of political ping-pong, members of the Cambridge Tenants Union (CTU) have said they may sue City Councillor William H. Walsh while he threatens to sue them...
...already begun. The central issue: Israeli policies in the occupied territories. Israel's friends abroad are hoping the debate will provide an opening for new ideas in dealing with the Palestinian crisis. Yet just the reverse seems probable. Despite the waves of foreign criticism over the country's harsh methods of handling the unrest, the domestic political benefits seem more likely to fall to the hard- lining Likud than the more moderate Labor Party. A poll published last week by the Tel Aviv daily Ma'ariv indicated that 64% of the sample favored either the current policy or an even...
...party plenum was also the occasion of Boris Yeltsin's ouster from his nonvoting seat on the ruling Politburo. A former Gorbachev protege, Yeltsin had been relieved as head of the Moscow party organization last year after delivering a harsh speech criticizing the slow pace of reform. Elevated to Yeltsin's former Politburo rank were two technocrats closely allied with Gorbachev: Georgi Razumovsky, 52, the Central Committee secretary in charge of personnel, and Yuri Maslyukov, 50, the State Planning Committee chairman. They are now the youngest members of the 21-seat Politburo, a distinction held until last week...
Though the survey was taken just after the New Hampshire primary, when Dole received bad reviews for his harsh comments about Bush, the public seems to have paid little attention to that part of the media buzz. When all registered voters are asked whether they consider either Bush or Dole "too quick- tempered to be President," 43% say neither, 15% name Bush and 12% Dole. Though Bush had just received a snowstorm of favorable publicity for winning New Hampshire, his lead over Dole among likely Republican voters shrank from 25 points in January to 18 points last week. Dole, however...