Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more stringent alcohol policy has also made it more difficult for house committees to raise money to fund social events...
Union Carbide Chairman Warren Anderson said he was "pleased" with the decision, but his company will have to agree to stringent conditions if the case is transferred. Carbide must accept the jurisdiction of the Indian courts, pay any judgment assessed and abide by the same rules for pretrial disclosure of information that would apply to a civil case being tried in U.S. federal court...
Soviet emigration policy has become more stringent since Mikhail Gorbachev's succession to the top Soviet post, and Jews now have little hope of gaining exit visas, the Goldstein brothers said. But at the same time, would-be emigres who do not raise a public protest suffer less persecution than in the past, they said...
...young department which grew up in a time of stringent budget constraints," says Bakanowsky. "It reached adolescence but never matured." But he adds that the department could be strengthened by major appointments in all three subject areas, as well as the development of a fellowship program...
...final document outlined specific steps that the seven nations agreed to apply against the governments of states that sponsor terrorism, singling out Libya. The accord includes limits on the size of diplomatic delegations, more stringent extradition arrangements and refusal to permit entry of any person expelled from another country for terrorist activities. At his Tokyo press conference, Reagan implied that the agreement actually went further. "We didn't think it was perhaps useful," he said, "to put all of that into a public statement telling terrorists exactly what it was we intended to do." Shultz, ordinarily Buddha-like, was downright...