Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...closer to home, where Cambridge residents daily face the affects of living in a town dominated by two mammoth and growing universities, Shattuck has a tougher time putting a smiling face on Harvard policies...
Wimbledon begins next week, a tougher stop for a baseliner, though Bjorn Borg contrived to win five in a row that patient way, and Chang has that kind of dream. "I want to be the No. 1 player in the world and have all the best shots in tennis: serve, volley, base line, drop shot, you name it. I try to set my goals as high as I can." If he inspires Asians, Chang will be pleased. "It helped Sweden when Borg came along and made such a big impact. I'm hoping it will also happen in Asia...
...broker. The onslaught of one-liners about John Tower's reported drinking and womanizing helped scuttle his nomination for Secretary of Defense. Relentless gags about the Exxon oil spill undoubtedly aggravated the company's public relations disaster and spurred pressure for White House action. Deposed Speaker Jim Wright was tougher to lampoon -- the charges against him involved abstruse House rules rather than booze and women -- but that didn't stop the monologuists from trying. (Carson on Wright's negotiations with the House ethics committee: "Part of the deal was he would resign if the committee would buy 10,000 copies...
Teenagers are committing more assaults, rapes and murders. And the aggression cuts across racial and class lines. Experts blame everything from physiological abnormalities to movies, rock music and TV cartoons glorifying brutality. Curbing the violence depends not on tougher punishment but on better treatment programs and restoring values that stress human worth...
...years ago we were crying in the wilderness," Kildee says. "It's not going to be easy, but we've tackled tougher things in the past down here...