Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Security at Rockeffeller's ballroom was tight, as is usual for the millionaire's headquarters. At the entrance to Goodell headquarters three guards checked credentials, a more stringent measure than the Senator usually takes. Reporters were given buttons with pictures of Wendell Wilkie, another Republican loser, for their identification...
...Comers. In fact, open admissions is hardly a new idea. For years, even Ivy League colleges accepted many whose only qualification was that they could pay the tuition. Only the poor had to fight for entrance, by competing for scholarships. Stringent selections began in earnest after World War II, when U.S. colleges were deluged with applicants. But many state universities continued to admit all high school graduates, then flunked out droves of dullards; most institutions made exceptions for athletes and alumni sons. All comers have been welcome at most of the two-year community colleges that now enable...
...Many cultures have long held that drunkenness and irresponsibility go hand in hand, but a fascinating new study indicates that the drunkard obeys a social code at least as stringent as that of his abstaining brother. See BEHAVIOR, "The Rules of Drunkenness...
...urged consideration of an "incomes policy" of voluntary controls. Banker David Rockefeller urged Nixon to depart from his economic game plan in favor of a little jawboning -or presidential persuasion-in an effort to hold down wage and price hikes. Even Congress, which has been notably reluctant to pass stringent anti-inflation measures, showed signs of its deep concern over the worsening economic situation. Democrats on the House Banking and Currency Committee, for instance, backed legislation giving the President power to freeze wages and prices for eight months...
...what is and who yet are driven by a sense of what it is possible for human life to be in this society. The nation could not survive being deprived of their presence because, by the irony implicit in the dynamics of American democracy, they symbolize both its most stringent testing and the possibility of its greatest human freedom...