Word: stringent
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...Carney, the commanding officer of the Cambridge tactical patrol force, attributed much of the decrease in crime to neighborhood crime watches and to increasingly stringent enforcement of motor vehicle codes...
Women need laws that are stringent, focused, and effective. Women need laws that target the real harm being done every day, in the streets and in illicit places. Assault, kidnapping, coercion, and rape--all elements of much of the most egregious pornography--are all illegal. Those crimes must be better prosecuted. In particular, the laws involving reporting and prosecution of rape need to be reworked to offer victims better protection and ensure that rapists are more severely punished...
...tenuous majority of progressive city lawmakers has kept Cambridge's current rent control policy intact since stringent housing regulations were adopted 15 years ago. Since that time, rent control has preserved 17,000 housing units for low and moderate income people. The balance of power on the council, however, could easily be upset this year due to increased pressure from realtors and landlords to leave the city's housing market vulnerable to speculation and condominium conversion. And that simply must not be allowed to happen...
...most recent show of opposition to the project, a Rent Control Board investigator has determined "conclusively" that four apartments in the building at 10 Mt. Auburn St. are subject to Cambridge's stringent housing laws...
Under Cambridge's complicated rent control laws, a purchaser can remove his property from the city's stringent housing regulations by occupying his rent controlled unit...