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...easy to be an opposition party in this country--just getting on the ballot for elections requires petitioning the individual states, with signatures from prohibitively high numbers of registered voters. In Massachusetts, the regulations are stricter than most. Would-be candidates need signatures from 3 per cent of the number that voted in the last election, which this year meant over 39,000, compared to the 1000 they need in New Hampshire. Given that fact that some signatures will always be invalid for one reason or another--the most common one being that voters think they are registered and aren...
...People can't just walk in with them [the transcripts] anymore," June Thompson, assistant director of admissions for the Law School, said yesterday. "We will be much stricter...
Robert W. Mudge, coordinator of records and communications for the University Police, said yesterday the decline in theft is attributable to stricter enforcement of trespassing laws, resulting in a higher number of arrests...
...United States invention has stirred more emotion, suspicion and criticism round the world than the modern multinational corporation. Many of the complaints are unjustified and highly exaggerated. Nonetheless, there have been enough genuine episodes of corporate misbehavior to spur demands for bringing the companies under stricter control...
...equalize the racial, sexual and ethnic proportions of personnel in academic institutions, according to Walter J. Leonard, Harvard's affirmative action czar. Goals, timetables and proportions are all euphemisms for quotas, without which the charges of "deficiency" and "underutilization" wouldn't make any sense. In fact, the demand for stricter quotas with closer compliance was the main point of the recent student demonstration...