Word: tougher
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Respected for his moderate, practical approach, Alexander will come to Washington with an impressive record of educational reforms. His Better Schools Program in Tennessee -- which features a merit-pay system for teachers, tougher standards for students and more computer, science and math instruction -- has become a national model. The ex-Governor favors deregulation of school bureaucracies to encourage innovation and strongly backs adult education to make U.S. workers competitive again...
...belonging to the National Shoe Retailers Association went on record against the proliferation of manufacturers' outlets; some are boycotting brands that have opened their own shops. "It's impossible to compete against them," complains association president William Boettge. For small stores, outlets are "making a tough business all the tougher," says John Cox, a recently retired shoe-shop owner in Lawrence, Kans., who saw his business drop more than 15% after a Bass outlet opened nearby and undercut his prices 20% to 30%. The 21,000-member National Sporting Goods Association also discourages manufacturers from opening outlets, though their protests...
...Craig L. Katz '91, one of the tougher questions was a hypothetical one. The interviewer pretended he was former President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, and said he had just suffered a series of small strokes at the Yalta conferences. The interviewer asked Katz to diagnose him, and then make a decision on whether or not to publicize the diagnosis...
...tougher person? The person that's afraid to rob a bank because of the repercussions, or the person that believes it's wrong," Roby asked...
...Shariat law, decided to seek a new interpretation of the law from Islamic scholars. Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, a federal minister, announced that the strikers' "misgivings" would be remedied by a "simpler and befitting interpretation" of the law. Nawaz Sharif is learning that imposing Islamic codes is far tougher than campaigning on the issue...