Word: stringent
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...group will not consider the possibility of scrapping Medicare, Blumenthal said. Instead, it will decide whether the government should not more stringent guidelines for coverage, underwriting fewer health services, or whether it should increase funding for the program...
Although the U.S. has long sought to ease the problem of overpopulation in the Third World, federal law bans the use of U.S. funds to finance abortions overseas. The Reagan Administration is now considering an even more stringent policy: withholding family-planning assistance from any population-control program funded by governments or private organizations that sanction abortion as a method of birth control. The plan was hailed by pro-life groups, but it has perplexed foreign aid experts, State Department officials and population control groups...
...December 1982, 18-year-olds were involved in about 42% fewer fatal drunken-driving accidents in 1983 than in 1982; but the rate for drinking-age 19-year-olds fell by 29%, suggesting that both declines may have been caused by an outside factor like more stringent law enforcement. Furthermore, argue critics of the pro-21 measure, foreclosing the privileges of the more than 99% of teen-agers who never get involved in alcohol-related accidents is unfair. Says Gene Adams, director of legislative affairs for Florida Governor Robert Graham: "You are a legal adult at 18 in Florida...
...latest worries about Latin debt came as the U.S. banking system was still recovering from the shock of the near collapse in May of Continental Illinois Bank. The bank revealed last week the stringent terms that it had been forced to accept to receive an emergency $1.5 billion loan from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The FDIC insisted that it have the power to fire Continental directors, that the bank suspend its 50?-per-share quarterly dividend payment and that the bank's officials refrain from giving themselves large severance bonuses, known as golden parachutes, in the event another...
...another conservative decision, the Supreme Court last week ruled unanimously that aliens seeking to avoid deportation on political grounds must show a "clear probability" that they will be persecuted in their home countries. That stringent standard had been softened by a federal appeals court, which found it was enough to show a "well-founded fear" of persecution. But the Supreme Court decision was not as much of a blow to those seeking permission to stay in this country for political reasons as it first seemed. The court carefully limited the ruling to those trying to avoid deportation and left...