Word: stringent
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...invalid because the measures had not been published as required by law. As a result, reporters were able to provide detailed accounts when the bloody confrontation that left 24 dead erupted a fortnight ago in Soweto. Last week, as the township girded for further violence, Pretoria issued the most stringent press restrictions yet, this time properly spelling them out in the Government Gazette. Reporters were prohibited from coming "within sight" of any unrest, security action or restricted gathering. Last week's funeral was thus off limits, forcing journalists to rely on word-of-mouth reports from Soweto...
...Bill of Rights. Whenever some bad guy "gets off" because his rights were violated, the cry goes up among members of the Dirty Harry School of Justice that surely something is rotten in Denver when "animals" are afforded such noble protections. But what is forgotten is that the stringent proscriptions of the Constitution are there to protect the innocent. The Constitution protects the liberties of the guilty so as to safeguard those of the innocent--those who have nothing to hide...
Many American businessmen argue that the U.S. trade gap could be narrowed if foreign countries were to dismantle barriers to trade, such as quotas and stringent customs regulations, which effectively block sales of American products. The Administration has tried, not too successfully, to combat these practices through trade negotiations. But last week the U.S. could claim that real progress had been made. After a year of often heated talks about the semiconductor trade, Japan finally agreed to boost prices of the computer chips it sells in the U.S. The Commerce Department had charged that Japan was "dumping" chips at money...
With the decisions of other large bodies, including states like Massachusetts and California, to divest, the passage of stringent sanctions by the House of Representatives and serious consideration of similar measures in the Republican-controlled Senate, increasing public concern for the plight of Black South Africans, and the general repudiation of constructive engagement, the time is ripe for divestment. The moral imperative to take such a step remains strong...
...supervision has made inroads in other businesses as well. At a Ford Motor plant in Batavia, Ohio, computers keep a running record of each employee's absences. Perfect attendance for a year can bring a prize of $500. Industrial companies have been less inclined than service firms to impose stringent computer monitoring of employee work. Tradesmen and other blue- collar workers tend to be highly resentful of automated supervision and frequently find ways to circumvent or sabotage it. Harley Shaiken, associate professor of labor and technology at the University of California at San Diego, tells in his 1984 book Work...