Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Some people come out worse than they went in. I have been accused of opposing parole and probation. I'm heartily in favor of them. But I am vigorously opposed to the abuse of parole and probation. The bleeding hearts on parole boards ought to be a little tougher. [In the matter of preventive detention] people who commit serious felonies-rape, murder, hijacking and kidnaping-should be incarcerated until they're tried, but it's absolutely wrong that they should have to wait seven or eight months before their trials...
Overall, the NATO ministers' attitude toward the Soviet Union was tougher than it has been for years. This was especially evident in their reaction...
...question remains whether the Vatican can woo a far tougher opponent: China's Mao Tse-tung. In recent years, Pope Paul has delicately noted that the church favors the "just expression" of social changes in China, but Mao has been slow to reply. The land once so open to Matteo Ricci remains for the moment incontestably closed...
Harvard will face tougher competition than the predictably poor Terriers this Saturday when it meets Army at West Point...
Inefficiency. Instead of getting tougher, says Clark, U.S. lawmen should get smarter. The present system is so inefficient that most crimes are never even reported; of those known to the police, barely one in nine results in a conviction. The odds against a burglar's being convicted are roughly 12 to 1: even for murder the odds are better than 4 to 1. Clark's description of American prisons, which he calls "factories of crime," suggests that the greatest service they could perform would be to free most of their inmates tomorrow...