Word: strictly
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...work-study component comes with strict rules on such issues as the number of hours students must spend with the children. In some programs such as the Fresh Pond Enrichment Program, only certain activities count for work-study. Students who teach art, music or any subject except reading would not be eligible for money...
...hard to separate out our feelings: Are we to be sympathetic to the disadvantaged? Angry that they are using their plight in what amounts to a power play? Disgusted at politics as usual? The famine in North Korea raises all these issues and more. Thanks to the strict controls the North Korean government has placed on the press, we do not even know how bad the famine really...
Earlier this year the U.S. Department of Justice entered into a consent decree with the city of Pittsburgh in which the police department agreed to a litany of new procedures, including strict documentation of the use of force, extensive new training and the appointment of an outside auditor with access to police disciplinary records. The new Citizen Police Review Board will have the power to conduct its own investigations and subpoena witnesses...
...Lisa, home from college for the summer. The house is run with a distinct 1960s flavor. Laurene has planted a garden of wildflowers, herbs and vegetables all around. The rooms are sparsely decorated, the only extravagances being Ansel Adams photographs. We dine as the Jobses always do: both are strict vegans, eating no meat products. Dinner is pasta with raw tomatoes, fresh raw corn from the garden, steamed cauliflower and a salad of raw shredded carrots. While the adults eat, their six-year-old son picks lemon verbena and other herbs in the garden for the after-dinner...
...early 1900s. The current crackdown, some analysts believe, stems from fears of loss of control as the church becomes more international. Most think it will get worse if, as is likely, the church's hard-line No. 3 man, Boyd Packer, someday becomes President. Some wonder how the strict Mormon sense of hierarchy, along with the church's male-centered, white-dominated and abstemious nature, will play as the faith continues to spread past the naturally conservative mountain states...