Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...person income guarantee, Nixon's plan embraces the minimum-income principle, although on a far more modest scale. Just where to place that income floor may remain a topic for argument. Nixon's decisive re-election may reinforce his desire to make the work requirements more stringent...
...Marcos can carry out his promised reforms, get the economy moving and provide an honest administration, he will continue to command the support of most Filipinos. But whether the people like it or not, the Philippines for the foreseeable future will continue under a dictatorship that is somewhat more stringent than that of Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore but less oppressive than that of Chung Hee Park in South Korea...
Protogyny (the development of a male from a functional female) is not uncommon among other kinds of tropical fish. But the rigid hierarchy of the wrasse harems represents a much more stringent control over the production of males than is found in the comparatively random sex reversals of "schooling" fish. Robertson believes that the inbreeding produced by this aquatic pecking order is genetically advantageous to the species. Because "the social organization is a framework within which the selective process works," he concludes, the genes passed on by each male wrasse are those best adapted to the environment of the harem...
...first time this November, all Americans in foreign countries will be able, at least in theory, to cast absentee ballots in the presidential election. By abrogating some of the more stringent state residency laws, the Voting Rights Act amendments of 1970 were meant to enfranchise about 750,000 Americans of voting age living abroad-not counting servicemen, who have been voting from overseas for years...
...stringent screening of applicants by school still leaves Harvard with 85 per cent of Rs applicants accepted into as medical school--a commendable percentage. However, the tremendous increase in undergraduate class enrollment has led Harvard to promote its screening. This year for the first time, students other than Freshmen receiving a grade below B in Mutural Sciences 3, "Introduction to Chemistry," cannot enroll in Chem 20 unless they receive a score of 700 or better in the Chemistry placement examination...