Word: strictly
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...Benson presidency, the secret "Strengthening Church Members Committee" was created to monitor doctrinally troublesome writings and beliefs. Old-style polygamists have suffered as much as liberal Mormons from excommunication. Says Jan Shipps, a religious historian at Indiana University-Purdue University: "It's the steering of a middle course." That strict patrolling of dissent is likely to continue under the new leadership; it may even deepen. Next in the line of succession after Hunter are Benson's chief counselors, Gordon B. Hinckley, who will turn 84 this month, and Thomas Monson, 66. After them may come Boyd K. Packer...
Trouble strikes when patients don't know about thalidomide's dark side -- and when those selling and dispensing the drug don't give adequate warning. Although the U.S. has strict rules governing thalidomide's use, controls are much laxer in some other parts of the world. The consequences are now apparent in Brazil, which has at least 46 new instances of birth defects caused by thalidomide. If there are cases in other countries, they haven't received the same publicity, but given the increasing use of the drug, health officials fear that the problem will be widespread...
...both Sommers and the program's administration have continued to back the rule, for reasons that appear to be more legal than pedagogical. A strict rule that applies to all teachers, sources say, is seen as a way to protect Expos from complaints of discrimination...
...standing still. Eliot embraced change, reform and experimentation. Against significant opposition from faculty, overseers and alumni, he transformed Harvard from a small, northeastern college into a national university by courageously adding and expanding graduate schools, enlarging the student body, recruiting faculty, broadening course offerings and liberating students from a strict set of course requirements. As Richard Norton Smith explains in his book, The Harvard Century, "For those in search of a pattern, there was [Eliot's] bold assertion that an open mind, trained to skeptical investigation, was preferable to complacency of any kind...
Kennedy continues of favor using strict economic sanctions and a trade embargo in order to hasten the return of Aristide. He says the U.S. should not rule out the use of military force...