Word: strictly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington, but patronage still figures in the granting of too many jobs. Several bills, now pending in Congress would set state quotas for summer jobs and prohibit discriminatory hiring practices. These measures, along with continued surveillance by the Civil Service Commission, would help to create in fact the strict employment merit system that passed into law eighty years...
...controversy first arose when the AEC attempted to insert certain restrictions into the contract. The Commission originally wanted to control all exchange of information between the CEA staff and Soviet bloc scientists, and to place strict limitations on visitors to the accelerator...
...Unity. Despite his wealth, he shuns luxuries, has no hobbies, and usually reads himself to sleep over bank reports. So strict a Moslem is he that he prays toward Mecca five times a day, allows none of his employees to drink, smoke or eat pork in his presence. Unimpressed by pomp, he treats peddlers, peasants and princes alike. He knows almost every Arab ruler from Ben Bella to King Saud, royally says of Jordan's King Hussein: "He is like one of my sons, but I tell him when he is wrong...
...Forms 1963 at a classical jazz concert in New York, Composer David Epstein pointed out that his music left no room at all for improvisation, the enriching, defining ingredient of nonclassical jazz. "The freedom of an older jazz style," Epstein wrote, "has given way to strict and careful musical planning...
Radcliffe protects each student with rules for two years, before granting her anything like the freedom of every Harvard freshman. In two years she gets enough experience to make her own decisions. Even if her behavior illustrates irresponsibility, no one pretends that strict rules in her final two years succeed in protecting her from herself...