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Coach Stephanie Johnson accepted the defeat as part of the team's indoctrination into the ranks of stiffer Eastern competition. "The team has performed well under the mounting pressure of tougher meets this year," she said...
...whether those standards are met. The EPA requires testing during a car's pre-production stage, long before it begins rolling off assembly lines. California, on the other hand, tests production-line cars. That difference will soon end; within a month the Government will adopt the stiffer procedure, also requiring tests of actual production vehicles...
Goldwater favored stiffer punishments. Anyone found carrying even an unloaded gun near a President should be given a mandatory ten-year term on top of any other judicial sentence, he said. Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie objected to electronic screening and suggested that the best practical measure is to get the candidates to "limit themselves much more than they...
Udall was a chief author of the 1974 campaign-finance law that puts limits on contributions and spending and provides for public financing of presidential elections. For years he has urged stiffer regulations for financial disclosure in the House and a ban against outside law practice by members...
TIME'S valuable story on the aged points out that stiffer regulations and better enforcement of existing laws are one way to improve the quality of care for nursing-home residents. I support these moves. But I think we must also confront a more fundamental question: Will any amount of regulation make a difference in a field dominated by those whose primary motivation is maximum profits...