Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...embattled Jimmy Carter has proved anything, it is that he savors a political fight. "It's a challenge," says a top White House staffer. "We fought a tougher fight in 1976 and won, and we're going to win this one too." Carter promises to battle to the last delegate. "It may be an Armageddon," warns an aide. "But he's never going to pull...
Kennedy added that tougher wage-price guidelines to deal with inflation are also imminent...
That is not sufficient for New York Congressman Benjamin Rosenthal, chairman of a Government operations subcommittee, who believes the IRS report underestimated the size of the underground economy by $100 billion to $200 billion. He wants tougher auditing of tax returns, believing that only "fear" will force more people to declare their full income. At present, the IRS audits only 1.8 million individual returns a year, or about 2% of the total. Says the angry Congressman: "The people paying their taxes are being forced to subsidize the rest...
...Fail Party were returned to power two years ago. Lynch's failure to return from a vacation in Portugal until late last week did nothing to stem the criticism, though he vigorously condemned the I.R.A. as the "real enemies of Ireland." Thatcher is being urged to push for tougher security measures when she meets with Lynch following Mountbatten's funeral this week...
...Most of our people and politicians have not yet realized the danger," says a top-level West German narcotics agent, "but the situation is almost out of hand already." Overworked police are appealing to the federal government for tougher antidrug laws and more manpower. Says Erich Strass, the federal crime office's narcotics chief: "We must put the drug danger on the same level with the terrorist danger. Otherwise we will be overwhelmed in a year...