Word: strictly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...argued against the Johnson Administration's effort in current Geneva negotiations to reduce tariff barriers across the board by 50% . Last week, after his appointment to the Cabinet was announced, he was still reluctant to back down. Said he: "I consider myself at the midpoint between a strict protectionist and an all-out free trader. I am against arbitrary 50% tariff cuts across the board for U.S. manufactured goods. Each reduction should also be made on a reciprocal basis with foreign competitors...
Peking's brutality in suppressing the Buddhist revolt in Tibet in 1959 outraged the world. Monks were shot, forced to sole their worn boots with sacred Buddhist texts, induced to take opiates. Members of a strict male celibate order were locked up with prostitutes imported for the occasion. Some of the younger monks gave way and then committed suicide in shame...
Basic Buddhism is thus less a religion than a body of ethics. Buddhism recognizes nothing even remotely resembling a personal god or even a supreme being; there are no supernatural powers that concern themselves with the individual, and in strict Buddhism one prays not to anyone in particular but merely as an exercise to purify the mind. In this sense, Buddhism is atheistic...
...progressive Bennington College for girls since 1957, who enthusiastically supported such famed Bennington trademarks as the nine-week semester of outside work, the dawn curfew for girls and 6 p.m. quitting time for boys visiting in dormitory rooms, explaining to distraught mothers and skeptical colleagues: "If regulations are too strict, you run your students into automobiles and motels"; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...undergraduate, who said he was from a House in which strict parietal enforcement was almost impossible, praised Harvard's present insistence that undergraduates make decisions on their own. He pointed out that few undergraduates of his House chose to violate parietals although it was possible...