Word: stricter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show of force. "He didn't get angry or violent," Stammer recalled. "He didn't seem like a fanatic Nazi. I think he was a cold scientist." Still, the Stammers did find that their guest was imperious with servants, and he often urged the couple to be stricter with their two sons...
Nevertheless, the imposition of stricter limits on business entertainment deductions would almost certainly have an effect on corporate folkways. No longer would executives be able to sit down to three-star French fare without thinking of the bottom line. Charles Clotfelter, a professor of economics at Duke University, anticipates that the result will be a healthy dose of moderation. "It's still important for businesses to entertain," he says. "It always has been. But I expect to see entertaining on a much less grandiose scale." So, presumably, does Ronald Reagan...
...moment the only solution seems to be stricter enforcement. That has become a primary goal of the Reagan Administration, despite its repu- tation of being cozy with Big Business. In 1983 the Justice Department set up the Economic Crime Council, made up of top law-enforcement officials, to "target, identify, prosecute and convict" people who commit financial crimes. The result has been a shift in priorities for Government crime busters. In 1970 only 8% of the criminal cases pursued by federal authorities involved white- collar offenses, but that figure rose to 24% in 1984. The Justice Department brought 20 cases...
...private organizations that monitor hate groups point out that the recent violence comes at a time when the membership in fringe cults seems to be declining. The FBI says it keeps a close watch on fewer than a dozen radical-right groups. The A.D.L. estimates that, thanks to stricter state laws, the Klan has declined to about 6,500 members, although the Anti- Klan Network puts the number as high as 9,000. Says Irwin Suall, A.D.L. director of fact-finding: "These terror gangs are resorting to violence precisely because they find themselves politically and socially rejected...
...least a score of prior cases from Alaska to Georgia involving school searches, lower court decisions have been sending what Thomson calls "a mixed message." A Louisiana court ruled for the stricter standard of probable cause; a few other states have cast school officials in loco parentis (in the place of a parent), able to search pretty much at will. But most lower courts have presaged the Supreme Court ruling for reasonable grounds, allowing the kind of search Choplick made...