Word: stricter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Forget the Reagan nonsense that requiring notification of plant closings would unnecessarily handicap American industry and endanger jobs. The provision would merely require that companies notify workers before laying off more than 500 of them, or one-third of their employees. Both West Germany and Japan have even stricter laws, and their competitiveness has not suffered...
...Princeton, 39 undergraduates were treated for alcohol poisoning the night of the initiation parties for the eating clubs. As a result, all of the 13 clubs have taken measures to control drinking at the clubs, ranging from alcohol education programs to stricter carding policies...
...Armor task force was created in response to another problem plaguing women in the military: sexual harassment. In the Navy the majority of 1,400 females surveyed last year said they had been victims. Carlucci last week ordered stricter enforcement of sexual harassment codes, development of new sensitivity-training courses, and a system that will allow women to pursue their complaints with other authorities if their local commander fails to respond...
...College recently instituted a stricter alcohol policy, and attendance at large house committee-sponsored parties has shrunk. The Men of Clay and the Infidels already play at the most popular functions on campus. Since attendance was poor at The Quick's few on-campus shows, the group decided to disband this winter. "The alcohol policy killed the party scene here at Harvard," Ben Hammond says...
...others at the Institute of Politics panel discussion urged states to adopt stricter gun control laws as a way of cutting the crime rate...