Word: stringent
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...inner workings of their monitoring programs. Says Barton Reppert, publisher of Office Health & Safety Monitor, a newsletter: "Many companies won't say anything in detail about it. It's a very sensitive area." Companies with thousands of workers doing repetitive jobs tend to operate some of the most stringent monitoring systems. At Pacific Southwest Airlines offices in San Diego and Reno, the master computer records exactly how long the 400 reservation clerks spend on each call and how much time passes before they pick up their next one. Workers earn negative points for such infractions as repeatedly spending in excess...
...usually the result of illness, poverty or neglect, but Dr. Michael Pugliese found that the child was basically healthy and the couple well-to-do and doting. In fact, the parents were so committed to caring for Noelle (not her real name) that they had placed her on a stringent low-fat diet in an effort to ensure that she did not become obese. Told that the strict regimen was stunting the toddler's growth, they were surprised. Says Pugliese, a pediatric endocrinologist at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y.: "They really felt they were doing what was right...
...majority, Justice Byron White held that when examining a motion for summary judgment, judges must determine "whether the evidence presented is such that a reasonable jury might find that actual malice had been shown with convincing clarity." Specifically, said White, judges must assess such evidence in light of the stringent "clear and convincing" standard of the landmark 1964 libel case, New York Times Co. vs. Sullivan. The effect would be to make libel complaints more difficult to justify at the pretrial stage...
Americans fear such a direction themselves. The continued exclusion of Blacks from the South African political process has exhausted the patience of liberals and moderates in the United States over the past years. But the recent declaration of a state of emergency and the stringent press restrictions which accompanied the expanded police powers have enraged many in this country to an all-time high...
...apparent jab at Harvard's guidelines, considered among the most stringent in the nation and a potential model for other schools, Gates said, "A university steps on precarious ground and threatens academic freedom itself by restricting what organizations a scholar may talk to, especially if one of the organizations is a branch of the government...