Word: harshness
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That amiable scene obscured some harsh realities. Despite Reagan's optimism, Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, Senator and Reagan Confidant Paul Laxalt and House Minority Leader Bob Michel had asked for the White House meeting to deliver a message that was grim, no matter how gently they phrased it: Republicans on Capitol Hill will simply not accept a budget involving such unprecedented deficits...
...PEOPLE BEGIN TO read more and more of the fine print on the four-year contract they signed when they elected Ronald Reagan, opposition to the harsh policies of the former film star has predictably grown. The difficulties and failures of Reaganism, however, must not be permitted to overshadow what may prove to be this administration's one outstanding success--a fair, coherent and consistent policy of antitrust prosecution...
...show of summary justice, civilian courts promptly sentenced 101 youths involved in the Gdansk riots to jail terms ranging from one to three months. In the Silesian military zone, meanwhile, eleven miners charged with organizing strikes at the Ziemowit coal mine in December received harsh sentences of three to seven years. In the northern town of Slupsk, six Solidarity members were given one-to 4½-year sentences for continuing their union activities...
...Park. Except for some Japanese woodprints and a Maxfield Parrish painting, his unpretentious prints and a Maxfield Parrish painting, his unpretentious Tudor-style home in Los Altos Hills is largely bare because he has not decided how to furnish it. As an executive, Jobs has sometimes been petulant and harsh on subordinates. Admits he: "I've got to learn to keep my feelings private...
...Miller wrong; he doesn't pass harsh judgments on audiences. Contrary to reports in the rock and roll journals (including a favorable write-up in Rolling Stone). Burma isn't really on the cutting edge of anything. The music is aimed at WBCN's top-40 list--new electronic twists on old motifs; pretty raunchy live, but so is every other competent bar band...