Word: crackdown
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Because a heavy-handed University crackdown on alcohol consumption would make the situation worse, we feel that a more effective policy would be for the administration to remain deliberately lenient in the enforcement of guidelines regarding the use of alcohol by underage students. We recognize that Harvard cannot publicly endorse moderation in underage drinking because to do so would fly in the face of the Alcohol and Drug Free School Act. The area that Harvard does have some control over is enforcement...
House Committee Social Chair William A. Blankenship '96 said he thinks that Currier House is not being singled out but is part of the "general crackdown of alcohol on campus...
Dare, who wrote for the Guardian, a newspaper in Lagos, Nigeria, was cited for his courage in the face of a military crackdown on press freedoms...
This year, the cost increase is due to a February crackdown on Square businesses who violated copyright laws by neglecting to pay publishers' fees. Copyright fees now comprise more than 50 percent of textbook costs, according to William Witt, copyright officer in Harvard's Office of Sourcebook Publications...
...Chinese press, while big business tugs at his sleeve, urging him to take it easy (The Economist called the 1994 democracy debates "a distraction" from more important matters, such as building a new airport.) More conservative Hong Kong residents worry that democratic saber-rattling invites a harsher crackdown in '97 and feel the best strategy may be to cuddle up to the new motherland...