Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trouble sets in, writes Kelley, whenever political or other issues supplant such stringent concerns. The recent mainstream Protestant formula-be tolerant, ecumenical, relevant-he describes as a formula for failure. Once a church lapses into such an approach, as the United Methodist Church has, Kelley maintains that a decline in numbers and influence is inevitable...
...general astonishment. If the Communists should wind up taking over in Saigon, "it will be tough," Wallace added. "But I want us out." On Capitol Hill, Speaker Carl Albert of Oklahoma, abandoning his usual caution, voted with the House Democrats who endorsed, 144 to 58, by far the most stringent antiwar resolution ever to get anywhere on that side of the Capitol. (The House has always been more hawkish than the Senate.) Even Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, long a tacit Administration backer on Viet Nam, proclaimed: "It's high time we got out of there...
...hack further into the system of fixed commissions that brokers charge on stock transactions. Starting in April, brokers will have to negotiate fees with customers who buy or sell stock in blocks worth more than $300,000; the minimum now is $500,000. Though the new rule is less stringent than some Wall Streeters had expected, it still will cut brokers' revenues by practically forcing them to reduce commissions on more trades executed for hard-bargaining mutual funds and other big investors. Richard Jenrette, president of Manhattan's Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, predicts that the new rule will "accelerate...
...while a sharpshooter kept watch from a fourth-floor balcony and guards frisked everyone going inside the courtroom. The curtains were drawn to foil the aim of any potential sniper; in the dock, the defendant sat behind a bulletproof glass shield. Ordinarily, the charges would not have justified such stringent precautions, even though Karl-Heinz Ruhland, 33, had confessed to bank robbery, car theft, breaking into city halls and stealing passports. Authorities feared, however, that he might be rubbed out by his former associates before he could testify-and he had played roughly the role of C.W. Moss...
...agreement without precedent in the world" -an exaggeration, of course, but almost a forgivable one. What the radio referred to was an agreement this month between Poland and East Germany allowing their citizens to visit each other's countries without the tedious exit formalities, border checks and stringent currency controls (90? a day for Polish tourists) that had made travel between Communist countries since World War II almost as difficult as getting to the West...