Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...becomes apparent that the book works on both a symbolical-fantasy level and a representational one, a tension that recalls the effects of Jerzy Kozinski's vignettes in Steps. In what appears to be part of his "real world," Randy is absorbed momentarily by Progressive Labor, adopts a stringent Marxist line and announces that "whoever isn't a Marxist eats shit." The infusion of colloquial language lends a very real resonance to the book. Randy, finding the first few pages of Capital almost incomprehensible, suddenly becomes a coprophiliac. At this point, Author Innis begins to pull even this reality...
This criterion proved to be quite a shock. The Committee's grounds for allowing an appeal hearing, "compelling evidence" were outrageous. The Committee had set more stringent grounds for granting an appeal hearing than it had previously stipulated for acquittal. This initial outrageous requirement was exacerbated by more Committee mumbo-jumpo...
Nixon Agonistes, by Garry Wills. A book about "the idea of Nixon" turns out to be a stringent accounting of Horatio Alger ideals and supply-and-demand marketplace ethics...
...faraway vacation trips. The nation's twelve major airlines expect to lose as much as $125 million before taxes in 1970; Trans World Airlines alone will show a deficit of up to $65 million. The industry predicts even bigger losses in 1971 and 1972, although it has made stringent economies. The number of flights has been reduced, and United even saved $250.000 a year by eliminating macadamia nuts on most runs (passengers get peanuts instead...
Radcliffe is called a liberal college. Yet Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, and other institutions have less stringent regulations about parietal hours than does Radcliffe. Each house at Radcliffe, in cooperation with its head resident, should be allowed the choice to vote for or against "open" open house...