Word: stringent
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American businessmen have long been enraged and frustrated by what they consider a one-sided Japanese attitude on trade. While exporting furiously, the Japanese have put imported products through a thicket of protective tariffs and a maze of nontariff barriers ranging from quotas to stringent labeling requirements. One result: a GE refrigerator sells for $2,075 in Tokyo, compared with $1,289 in New York City. Little wonder, then, that many U.S. companies saw no point in even trying to crack the Japanese market...
...George Hardy, a staffer for the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, said yesterday the pre-emption clause contains two conditions for the state or local government to establish its own guidelines: the local guidelines must be the same or more stringent than the federal ones, and the change must be necessary to protect local health or environmental conditions...
University sources yesterday suggested that a more stringent admissions procedure and smaller classes for women may have contributed to their superior academic performance in the past...
...Garuda says that with the stringent requirements one must adhere to in order to become an initiated devotee, a quick hop in and out of ISKCON is impossible. Garuda believes his rejection by the United Ministries is a "possible case of religious prejudice." He believes many people do not accept ISKCON because they identify it as being similar to new religions like Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church and the New Light Movement...
...This is unacceptable: although we recognize the inevitability of some type of Gen Ed revisions, ten areas constitute an unnecessarily excessive infringement on students' freedom of choice. Indeed, most members of the Harvard community were prepared to accept the verdict of the Faculty subcommittees. In light of the unexpectedly stringent requirements, however, many must now reconsider whether or not the Faculty is going too far. The idea of some required courses in a loose framework, as embodied by the Gen Ed principle, is desirable. But in terms of the degree of curtailment of students' choice students must accept, the Core...