Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little by their saber rattling. In last week's NBC debate, Kemp lashed out at the Soviets for violating past treaties. "We should not rush into signing an agreement with the Soviet Union," he declared, "until we force them to comply with previous agreements." While Kemp called for unrealistically stringent verification procedures, Robertson's conditions for signing an arms accord seemed even more fanciful: he glibly recommended "a rollback, a decolonization, if you will, of the Soviet empire." Du Pont was a bit more temperate. Though he said the INF deal was a "bad treaty," his main concern...
These are not particularly stringent guidlines, and there was tacit agreement at the forum that they were neccessary to end the current ambiguity that inevitably results in chaos. Students that understand the policy can more effectively plan both events and protests that can convey concerns and messages without unneccessary disruption...
There may be hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of Weiweis throwing tantrums throughout China. The reason: Beijing's stringent one-child-per- couple policy. As its population approached 1 billion, the People's Republic began enforcing the one-child limit in 1979. Today, of the 337 million Chinese children under 14, 30 million are without siblings. These children, called "little emperors" by the local press, have been swaddled in the love of their parents and grandparents; as a result, many Chinese fear, they are growing up spoiled, selfish and lazy. "The child cares about getting love from others...
...campus rules were more than stringent. Access of "outsiders" to the houses was limited, a xenophobic move by supposedly egalitarian Harvard if ever there was one. The obsession with proper Harvard identification was so complete that one student who ran out without her burser's card couldn't get back into her Mather House room until nightfall...
...achievement came after glitches scuttled three scheduled tests. Company engineers are now examining for charring or erosionthe revamped joints that connect segments of the booster. Those signs indicate leakage of burning gases, the problem that led to the Challenger explosion 19 months ago. More stringent testing lies ahead. Still, officials of the space agency and Morton Thiokol were ecstatic. Said NASA Associate Administrator Richard Truly: "We waited a long time to see this...