Word: harshness
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...dying newspaper by allowing it to combine its business operations with a healthy competitor. They thus joined forces in applying to the Justice Department for approval of a "joint operating arrangement." Testifying at a hearing last August, Knight-Ridder Chairman Alvah Chapman backed up the proposal with a harsh ultimatum: unless the Justice Department approved the J.O.A., he would recommend that Knight-Ridder "close down the Free Press and dispose of its assets...
...that some members of the nine-member Sandinista directorate feel the same way. Since the five Central American Presidents signed Arias' peace pact last August, every conciliatory gesture made by Ortega in the international arena has been followed quickly by a harsh gesture at home that reminds the internal opposition not to push the limits of reform too fast. And each time the boot came down, rumors flew that the moderate and hard-line comandantes were in deep disagreement. Last week brought new evidence of strains. As Ortega decreed an end to the state of emergency, five more opposition members...
Clark's brand of discipline is often harsh. On a single day in his first year, he threw out 300 students for being tardy or absent and, he said, for disrupting the school. "Leeches and parasites," he calls such pupils. Over the next five years he tossed out hundreds more. Faculty members hostile to $ his vision were dismissed or strongly encouraged to leave. During his six-year tenure some 100 have departed, including a basketball coach who was hustled out by security guards for failing to stand at attention during the singing of the school alma mater. "I expurgated them...
...night of Feb. 8, while most Americans are sensibly warming themselves from the glow of TV tubes, upwards of 200,000 Iowans will brave the harsh elements to attend political meetings in 2,943 precincts across the state. Their ostensible purpose is to pick delegates to attend obscure county conventions in March, but the results will be heralded in 76-trombone fashion as the first referendum on the 1988 field. In one of American democracy's strangest eccentricities, these 200,000 dutiful citizens from an atypical prairie and river-soil state could have far more say in sorting...
...ECONOMY in South Florida has adapted to these harsh realities. Only two kinds of businesses are permitted by local zoning ordinances: banks and restaurants. There are banks of every name imaginable; virtually every possible combination of the Words "First," "National," "American," "Federal," "Savings" and "Bank" are used in their titles. Since stingy old people have their life's savings at their disposal and spend money only on restaurant meals, there is enough cash lying around to give Mr. Drysdale quite a boner...