Word: stricter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Work-Study plan. The largest program is Guaranteed Student Loans (GSL), which provides $7.7 billion to 3.5 million students (52% more than last year's number), many from families earning much more than $30,000 a year. Under Reagan's proposed budget, GSLs would require a far stricter determination of student need and a higher interest (the going commercial rate vs. a fixed 9%). Graduate students would not be eligible for GSLs at all, but could take out high-interest auxiliary loans. The Government also plans to cut Pell Grants by 40%, reduce Work-Study and do away...
...President Carter's Attorney General, Benjamin Civiletti, then insisted on a stricter interpretation of the law, which forbids unauthorized expenditures. While Civiletti's "opinion" did not legally bind Reagan, the President took it seriously enough to have his Office of Management and Budget draft contingency plans. So, apparently, did Congress. Well in advance of the deadline, it authorized one branch of Government to continue functioning, and with a spending increase: itself...
While some Harvard students said they believe a computer system and stricter security might help to limit the number of unauthorized meals taken, many said they would continue to encourage their visitors to avoid paying the transient fees, which one student said, "are not worth the price of the food...
Smith has declared that violent crime will be the Justice Department's top priority. Accordingly, the department this fall may push Congress for a federal death penalty; a loosening of the "exclusionary rule" that makes illegally obtained evidence inadmissible at trials; and stricter bail laws, including the right to refuse bail to "dangerous" offenders. Complains Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union: "These measures will harm civil liberties without having any impact on crime...
With pressure on Secretary of Education T.H. Bell to make further cuts in the department's budget, most experts expect the White House to renew its initial support for such changes as requiring students to pay interest while still enrolled, imposing a stricter needs test and eliminating entirely the Auxiliary Loan program...