Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crookes, who coordinates services for undergraduates with disabilities, said he wrote the police suggesting stringent measures after the tire of a student's wheelchair was punctured by the pedal of a parked bike...
...Stringent currency reform helped to subdue the German inflation, however, and the next five years developed into a kind of rosy blur in economic history. Not so 1929: it is one of those years, like 1776 or 1914, that is synonymous with a single event, in this case the Great Crash. Politicians and businessmen might keep saying that prosperity was just around the corner, but they could not still the anguished question that
...paid off. There has been widespread improvement in the way rape victims are treated by the police, courts and hospitals. There are now more than 700 rape crisis centers nationwide. Laws in most states have been toughened, conviction rates are going up, and judges are likely to give more stringent sentences to offenders...
...architecture students, under the supervision of professors and practicing architects. This year some 50 students have been working at the eleven sites on a combined budget of $250,000. Surveys are generally requested by state or municipal agencies or private groups, who also help to pay the tab. Stringent budget cuts have reduced HABS' s once orderly if complicated selection process to pot luck...
...trying too often to abdicate rather than carefully define its regulatory role, the Administration has given deregulation a bad name. That is unfortunate, because the thicket of Government regulation does indeed need thinning. Even pro-regulation activists concede that there are many outdated or overly stringent rules on the books. But the Reagan Administration's uneven approach has made regulatory reform a political danger zone, to be avoided at least until after the 1984 elections. Concedes a senior White House aide: "Deregulation doesn't have the same priority for us it used to have. The political dividend aren...