Relations improved when the South introduced a "sunshine policy", but deteriorated sharply when Lee took office in 2008 with a pledge to be tougher, cutting off free-flowing aid.
Relations improved when the south introduced a "sunshine policy" but deteriorated sharply after President Lee Myung-bak took office in 2008 with a pledge to be tougher, cutting off free-flowing aid.
Layoffs at Ford or G.M. can mean a company is finally getting tough in cutting costs.
But even that level of spending may have a tough time cutting through the attention being paid to the fate of the state's governor.
The candidates, while talking tough about cutting our dependence on foreign oil, have supported some policies that seem inconsistent with that aim.
If the American people don't support Republicans promoting a tough budget cutting agenda, "they will get what they deserve, things going down the tubes and you have to start all over again, or you have a dictatorship," Grafton told me.
Meanwhile, the agency has had a tough time cutting its costs to match the revenue drop, with a history of labor contracts offering good health and pension benefits, underused post offices, and laws that restrict its ability to make basic business decisions, like reducing the frequency of deliveries.
Meanwhile, the agency has had a tough time cutting costs to match the revenue drop, with a history of labor contracts offering generous health and pension benefits and no layoff provisions, and laws that restrict its ability to cut the frequency of deliveries.
They're tough problems but cutting edge ones.
Without Greece's commitment to tough deficit cutting measures, the EU and IMF could refuse to release the rest of the rescue funds.
