Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Healy said that, for the first time since voters approved the tax-cutting measure Proposition 2 1/2 in 1980, Cambridge complies with its stringent limitations on the city budget...
...Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services have published a brochure offering Americans the following general recommendation: "Avoid too much fat, saturated fat and cholesterol." Throughout this year, officials of both departments are meeting with scientists to discuss whether or not this recommendation should be made more stringent and specific, in light of the N.H.L.B.I. findings. "The time has come for the Federal Government to make some pronouncement on cholesterol," says George Washington University's LaRosa. But some nutritionists fear that opposition from the food industry will prevent the Government from taking a firmer stand...
...accept and protect religious plurality. In a rather shocking passage the majority opinion states "we have repeatedly emphasized our unwillingness to be confined to any single test or criterion in this sensitive area." The statement seems to symbolize the court's apparent willingness to back down on previously stringent criteria in the face of conservative pressure and the friendliness of the season...
...Birmingham program now under attack is a typical remedial hiring program. Although the plan does include the use of quotas--the most extreme and most controversial affirmative action method--those numerical goals have repeatedly been approved, and often mandated, by the courts. Typically, they are applied where less stringent measures have failed to bring about change...
...crime in the nation is now related to drugs. More than 4,500 addicts are in prison, and last year 1,000 soldiers were dismissed from the Malaysian army for drug involvement. In neighboring Thailand, long permissive in matters of vice, some leading authorities now favor stringent antidrug laws and compulsory rehabilitation. In India, new users range from drivers of Delhi's scooter taxis to affluent businessmen who view a quick fix as the fashionable thing...