Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cambridge's stringent rent control law sets the rents of about 17,000 residential properties at levels below the market rate...
...with that kind of thinking, it has spawned success for a small but rapidly growing group of socially conscious investment funds. About half a dozen of these mutual funds % are winning customers by promising to put money into the stocks or other securities of only those companies that meet stringent standards on issues ranging from pollution control to foreign investments. Many of the funds are now especially hot because they severely restrict investment in companies that have ties with South Africa...
State Rep. Thomas M. Gallagher (D-Brighton) said that unlike the Proposition 2-1/2 tax cap referendum which passed in 1980, this proposal has little opposition. He said its opponents have limited their efforts to publicizing a less stringent legislative bill that is due to emerge from conference committee this week...
...been violating it, but he has hinted he may reconsider if the Soviets are forthcoming in arms-control negotiations. In any event, the President will have a demand of his own to voice to Gorbachev. Reagan will insist on verification procedures in an INF accord that are much more stringent than Moscow has ever accepted...
...underground labs do not have the most stringent quality controls. Four years ago a botched batch of a designer drug called MPTP circulated through Northern California and left scores suffering from a frightening side effect: Parkinson's disease. If drugs like MPTP become as popular as cocaine, warns Ian Irwin, a San Jose neurotoxologist, "you would have the makings of a real national disaster. It would make Chernobyl look minor...