Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week, after her lawyers stepped up their campaign to have her released, U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick agreed that Patty should be freed. Orrick declared that the stringent conditions he had demanded "will reasonably assure that she will not flee" before her appeal is acted upon...
...example, as sales become harder to make at home, businessmen are increasingly engaged in a bruising scramble to boost exports. Their efforts have led to a fresh surge of protectionist sentiment. British unions, for example, are demanding stringent import curbs to protect workers' jobs, and in the U.S. business groups are lobbying for limits on imports of shoes and color TVs. Over lunch last week in Brussels, angry officials of the European Community bluntly warned Japanese representatives that they would close the door to some Japanese goods unless the country moves swiftly to reduce its mammoth $4.2 billion annual...
...same two key provisions: 1) that utilities accept unlimited liability in the event of nuclear disaster, waiving the federally imposed limit of $560 million for any one accident, and 2) that state legislatures certify-usually by two-thirds majorities, which are difficult to get-that each proposed plant meet stringent safety requirements. But the environmentalists were heavily outspent by utilities and other pro-nuclear forces who argued that crippling the construction of new plants would rob the U.S. of a necessary alternative to foreign oil as an energy source...
Good Start. Environmentalists had hoped that Congress would impose even more stringent regulations, but TSCA is considered a good start. The Manufacturing Chemists Association believes that the nation's chemical companies can live with the new regulations. However, the expense to industry will be high; the association's estimates range from a low of $360 million up to $ 1.3 billion. An EPA estimate of $143 million was considered 30% too low by the General Accounting Office...
Last week's sell-off was attributed mainly to the perception of international bankers and investors that Callaghan's Labor Party government, split between warring radical leftists and moderates, was less serious than it professed to be about applying stringent policies for controlling inflation. Those policies -among them wage and price controls -were effective up to a point; the rate of inflation has been slowed from 23% a year ago to 13.8% now. Also, Healey has announced ambitious plans for even more cuts in the 1977-78 budget...