Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clubs have complained to the Athletic Department for three years now about the lack of supervision. Robert Watson, director of athletics, said Thursday that the Athletics Department was only now "prompted to take action" because the gun laws in Massachusetts have been made more stringent...
...young and the unsupported old, practically everyone feels that welfare has become a hydra-sustaining many who do not deserve help, breeding incredible bureaucracy and inefficiency and entangling the nation in ideological clashes over just how much aid should go to whom, who should pay for it and how stringent the standards of eligibility should...
With financial pressures relaxed, the mayor could begin bargaining for additional taxing authority from the state. It is almost certain that he will be able to present a less stringent budget for fiscal 1976 than the so-called crisis budget he proposed last month. Instead of having to lay off as many as 50,000 city employees, he may be able to get by with as few as 20,000 dismissals...
...lawmakers and their constituents do not see an energy emergency compelling enough to warrant tough action. Liberals in particular worry more about the problems of unemployment and recession than about making the nation invulnerable to a new Arab oil embargo. On the other hand, the Administration regards a stringent U.S. energy program as an essential element of foreign policy. Kissinger wants to remove the threat of another embargo from all considerations of what policies Washington should pursue in the Middle East and elsewhere...
...Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger (TIME, April 14) were deleted before its American release. Currently, a new work by Marcel Ophuls is being re-edited and thoroughly reworked. The Memory of Justice, a meticulous and moving examination of the Nuremberg war trials, was made with the same stringent conscience and intellect that characterized The Sorrow and the Pity, Ophuls' monumental study of France during the Resistance. The Memory of Justice is an equally important film. Now it is being hacked by its producers into a routine documentary...