Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life imprisonment. Now the California Court of Appeals has ordered a new trial, though the reason has nothing to do with women's rights. In instructing the jury, said the court, Judge Lawson erred by explaining the criteria for guilt in terms "strikingly comparable" to the less stringent ones used in civil cases. The state intends to appeal...
...Gift Horse (1971) revealed that she could have been a writer as well, perhaps even a novelist. Although that book contains a fine, stringent recollection of Hollywood, it is best about the war. Knef had a wretched time of it, usually hungry and sick, falling in love with Nazis and Jews, shuttling across constantly altering boundaries. The secret of her style then and now lies in its immediacy...
Okerman said he doesn't believe Harvard lacks the money to back the team. "If we had a better team, we would have gone. The money could have, and should have, been found. What it really boiled down to was that Harvard's qualifying standards were more stringent than the NCAA's qualifying standards," he added...
...been directed at the press. The other day, in discussing the BBC (which has withdrawn its correspondent from India), Mrs. Gandhi told an interviewer, "They seem to think that anything is fair if it's anti-Indian." Both the domestic and foreign press are still subject to stringent controls. Three weeks ago, the government abruptly expelled Jacques Leslie of the Los Angeles Times, for allegedly violating the censorship guidelines, thereby making him the sixth Western correspondent to be ousted since June. Last week authorities cut the telex and telephone wires of Reuters and the Australian Broadcasting Corp., for reporting...
...decision infuriated Harvard officials, who had worked hard to comply with the housing agency's stringent rules and had assumed that the money was as good as earmarked for the development...