Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bill is being considered by the Massachusetts State Senate, calling for even more stringent regulations. According to the law, newly constructed buildings and those that undergo extensive renovations are required to be accessible to the handicapped. Mather House, to a large extent inaccessible, was built 12 years ago, two years prior to the government ruling. The newly renovated Sever Hall is completely accessible, as is Cabot House, which is now being redesigned...
Instead, I began wondering why Harvard is so stingy with its toilet paper. It's not expensive, is it? (Despite Harvard's stringent rationing of toilet paper, I have still never bought any on the open market...
...board equipment showed the slightest glitch. Five of the 18 F-111 craft developed such malfunctions, probably in their radar targeting equipment, as did two of the carrier-based A-6 craft. Pentagon officials rightly maintain that the rules of engagement in wartime would not be as stringent as those for the Libyan mission, but the high rate of even minor malfunctions is hardly encouraging...
...think that a good many schools have more stringent requirements than we do, but we're catching up," Ramos says. "The school is increasingly recognizing the social context of medicine...
...conclusion is that bulimia has increased, but it is not nearly as prevalent as has been widely believed. At the same time, there are many individuals who have bulimic-like syndromes that don't fit all the stringent requirements of the operational definition," Ware says. "The same would be true for anorexia," she added...