Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That shake-up will be paced by legislation now pending in Congress that in many ways is even more sweeping than the stringent measures passed during the New Deal in reaction to the stock market excesses of the Roaring Twenties. The new competitive era for Wall Street arrives as brokers scramble for capital to offer fresh investment ideas in new ways to U.S. investors...
...deregulation of domestic-oil and natural-gas prices in order to raise energy costs enough to force a 1 million-bbl.-per-day reduction in oil imports by the end of the year. One main aim: to in crease economic pressure on the OPEC oil cartel by encouraging stringent energy conservation efforts in other oil-consuming countries...
...said that if the archives building is found to be "non-controversial" by the GSA then it will not require hearings or stringent review by the community...
...Johnson added, "If the levels are as high in the Square as the impact statement for the Kennedy Library indicates, more stringent controls may be needed...
Carter is stringent in his music. But on the inequities of the musical life he is capable of arias and cadenzas. "Do you know how much I received in royalties the first year from the LP of Concerto for Orchestra? I'll tell you how much-$50. I get paid $3,000 to write a piece of music. My publisher has to spend $10,000 to get the thing ready for publication. When it comes out, I find that it has hundreds of errors in it. I send him an errata...