Word: stricter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kevin McDevitt of the city assessor's office said that the city prefers to maintain its "flexibility" when negotiating with Harvard, rather than pressing for a stricter agreement...
Both doctors and administrators stressed that stricter rules would benefit students, because sex before college graduation was thought to be harmful to the young adult's psyche...
Experts like Clifton Curtis, executive director of the Washington-based Oceanic Society, say state and federal officials should be stricter about enforcing the safety laws that already exist for handling oil, require tankers to be equipped with double hulls for added leakage protection, and impose tough personnel rules that would ban convicted drunken drivers from tanker commands. Other reasonable proposals include updating the training standards for tanker pilots and crews, and requiring oil companies to test employees for drug and alcohol abuse...
State House officials said Berry's bill would be the easiest way to implement stricter regulations on medical waste disposal...
...separate regulations will ban the use of aerosol hair sprays and deodorants and require companies, regardless of the cost, to install the best antismog equipment available. But one of the plan's primary objectives is to break the city's addiction to the internal-combustion engine. First, it imposes stricter emission standards and forces employers to encourage car pooling. Then it calls for conversion of most vehicles to methanol and other cleaner burning fuels. Finally, in a Buck Rogers phase that assumes rapid advances in fuel-cell technology, it calls for a massive switch to cars, buses and trucks powered...