Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...normal: on the Continent, lights glittered, traffic was snarled as usual, and retailers did a booming business. Only Sweden and The Netherlands are about to begin gasoline rationing. The Dutch are rationing at least partly out of embarrassment that their supposedly embargoed country had previously instituted conservation measures less stringent than those of their unembargoed neighbors...
Then the tumbrils rolled over Boucher's luxurious fancies, burying them; the stringent austerity of neoclassical thought wiped them from the roster of "serious" art. Even today, Boucher's work-a fine sampling of which, drawn from North American collections, opened last week at Washington's National Gallery-seems a rather indefensible pleasure. Of course it is not; we have merely been taught to distrust his unalloyed, socially pliable hedonism...
...scores of amendments in three days of debate. The bill still faces a prickly conference to reconcile Senate and House versions (the Senate would permit the Administration to order rationing and other conservation steps subject to a congressional veto within 15 days; the House would place far more stringent constraints on the White House). It should become law very quickly. The Senate gave industry some new mandates; it passed a bill that would force manufacturers within 15 months to paste "energy efficiency" labels on all major household appliances. Longer range, the Senate bill would compel automakers by 1984 to increase...
Surprisingly, the government has thus far shied away from any really stringent controls. Critics say that Tanaka has spent more time defending his past record than giving his confused people any clear idea of where he intends to take them. Japan has not even taken the sort of voluntary measures adopted in Western Europe or the U.S., like Sunday-driving bans and weekend closing of gas stations...
...Netherlands, the one Common Market nation on the Arab embargo list, some Christmas lights continued to blaze and visitors reported hotel rooms occasionally so toasty that windows had to be thrown open. Though the Dutch led Europe in banning Sunday driving, their other conservation measures are actually less stringent than those of some European neighbors...