Word: stringent
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Jean L. Bruneau, professor of Comparative Literature, said another factor causing the application decline among potential applicants may be knowledge of GSAS's stringent admission policy...
Strict guidelines will be laid down to force appliance makers to produce highly efficient irons, hair dryers, refrigerators, electric ranges and the like. In the long run, thriftier appliances will help consumers to offset, at least in part, rising energy costs. Stringent efficiency standards will also be mandated for factory equipment...
...Cambridge City Council, which on MOnday rejected a complex proposal to "go on the record" as opposing the granting of a license to the theater for staging the show, instead passed an order to require stringent checking of age identification at the theater door before each performance...
...Representative James Delaney, any food additive-no matter in what quantities-that causes cancer either in humans or lab animals must be prohibited. The same law may yet be invoked in other bans in the months ahead, though the FDA is clearly not happy with the amendment's stringent clauses. Said an agency spokesman: "There is a need for public debate on the Delaney amendment. The ability to detect health hazards in 1958 was not as advanced as it is today. Congress has to consider whether that law is still appropriate...
...that Britain has no equivalent of First Amendment guarantees of press freedom. Instead, British journalists face a daunting obstacle course of legal restrictions: 1) strict libel laws that allow even notorious public figures to win damages for disclosures that in the U.S. would not be considered actionable; 2) stringent contempt-of-court rules under which a journalist can be jailed for any original reporting about a matter that is sub judice, that is, before a court; 3) the principle of "confidence," which protects from disclosure industrial secrets and other private information that would be considered fair game...