Word: strictly
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...Buddha-like beings who had won the right to enter Nirvana but chose to be reborn on earth to enlighten others. A cornucopia of Mahayana offshoots sprang up over the centuries. Zen, which was adopted by the Japanese samurai class, combined chanting and teacher-student dialogue with an extremely strict sitting meditation practice, often enforced with whacks from a ceremonial wand. As a tool toward faster enlightenment, Zen's Rinzai school had its students wrestle conundrums, or koans, such as the famous query "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" The late-blooming Soka Gakkai practice, favored by Tina...
...doing a strict academic project I'd be doing music stuff on the side, but now things that I'd be doing anyway are furthering my academic goals as well," he says...
...When I was a senior in high school, I got on the phone with [ROTC] people to find out exactly what programs I could get into when I graduated," said Justin E. Porter '99. "The Air Force and the Navy were very strict about what fields you could study and whether you could get an educational delay. The Army was much more flexible...
According to Rutley and Lt. Col. Robert Rooney, director of Army ROTC at MIT, the Air Force and Navy are more strict than the Army in granting educational delays, but all three branches are hesitant to grant deferrals of service...
Zuniga and Miramontes, however, may never get a chance to help. There are strict rules governing how vaccine trials are conducted in the U.S.--rules that could delay any study by at least two years. Although the volunteers say they might proceed without the blessings of the National Institutes of Health and the FDA, Desrosiers insists he will not make his specially altered HIV strains available to any scientist who does not have government approval...