Word: sterner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...solemn campaign pledge to the contrary, the White House let it be known that it is considering seeking some sort of tax increase to slow the runaway pace of the economy. At the same time there were strong indications that the Administration will shift back to much sterner price controls, possibly within the next two weeks...
...pooh-poohing the need for sterner Government rules against deceptive advertising, agency chiefs like to argue that today's consumer is too smart to be hoodwinked. That comfortable belief has now been shaken by a study presented at a recent gathering of the American Marketing Association by Seymour Lieberman, president of Manhattan-based Lieberman Research Inc. His key finding: deceitful ads can be far more persuasive than promotions that tell the simple truth...
Kissinger has withstood the bombing and the blood for over four years now, and his admirers were beginning to boast that he was made of sterner stuff than mighty Mac. Faced by limitless suffering, the Harvard man remained impassive. Why shouldn't his alma mater be proud of him? Why shouldn't he be welcomed back to Lowell Lec and the CFIA...
Robbins said the two paintings were a "very valuable" water color portrait by Albert Sterner and an oil landscape by Jules Dupre...
...oratory about "law-and-order" is that the President of the U.S. has little direct responsibility for crime in the streets (except in Washington, D.C.). Nixon can inveigh against "permissive judges," as he recently did, and he can appoint to the federal judiciary men he considers of sterner stuff, but federal courts normally do not try muggers, just as federal police do not normally pursue murderers. What the President can do is to urge Congress to provide money, and that Nixon has done...