Word: strictness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Years of hurricane experience had taught the U.S. how to protect itself. The U.S. Weather Bureau's Hurricane Warning Service uses networks of sensitive seismographs and patrols of hurricane-hunting planes. Strict city building codes and the American Red Cross "hurricane shelter" program have also reduced the toll. Twenty years ago, U.S. hurricanes cost an average of 161 lives for every $10 million property damage...
...formalistic, bourgeois") gave Dondero no pause. He concluded his blast with the suggestion that U.S. artists be screened just as lawyers (and Russian artists) are: "Why should our highest art organizations have any different standard of membership than our bar associations? [For the bar] a candidate must pass the strict requirements of a character committee...
...this uneasy coalition was youngish (44), handsome Gaston Eyskens, who as former Finance Minister had been the scarecrow of Belgian taxpayers. His tax collectors, to whom he had given virtually inquisitorial powers, had outraged Belgians, who are highly imaginative deduction hunters. A learned, conservative economist, Eyskens will push strict government economy, lower taxes, fewer state controls...
Said Kirkpatrick: "We take the stand that no one should be fired for political beliefs-but membership in the Communist Party or in a number of Communist fronts is entirely different. The Communist Party is not a political party in the strict sense of the word - it's simply a fifth column for the Soviet Union." Earlier this year, Sweets resigned as president of the Radio & Television Directors' Guild rather than sign an anti-Communist affidavit. And Counterattack reeled off a list of Communist-front organizations which he had supported. Said Sweets, in a typical party-liner...
...students who might entertain the idea of trying to establish contact with the boys taking the exam early this morning in New York will be disappointed. The Columbia grad student who will proctor the exam is under strict orders not to let his charges out of his sight until he has accompanied them to their boat...