Word: stringent
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...show that most Americans favor deregulation of industry, especially if it encourages competition. (For example, the Administration's deregulation in such economic areas as banking, bus transportation and telecommunications has provoked relatively little controversy.) But a Harris survey this year showed that 88% of Americans prefer even more stringent standards on clean air, and 91% either favor existing regulations on safety in workplaces or want those regulations made tougher. Failure to make the distinction between rules involving economic competition and those affecting health and safety, contends George Eads, an adviser on regulations to Presidents Ford and Carter, has "created...
...view, the present situation does not meet this stringent test. In this regard, we note that the registration law does not conflict with the legally recognized, traditional night of conscientious objection, since it does not abridge existing rights under selective service laws to raise such a claim if Congress reinstitutes the draft and a student is classified for induction. Thus, while we acknowledge that sincere reasons of conscience may lead some students to refuse to register of complete the compliance forms, we believe that they, not Harvard, should hear the consequences of their beliefs...
...have stringent guidelines for the use of federal-owned automobiles," the says use Dick of Helmer, seniorgroup director of the watchdog General Accounting Office, "but nothing on aircraft."As a result, said the GAO in a report last week, there is widespread waste and misuse by U.S. officials of Government air planes. The GAO looked at purchasing and maintenance practices in 19 agencies, ranging in size from the relatively small Bureau of Reclamation to theTennessee Valley Authority, and found...
...sensitivity of this issue may be dramatized this week, when a funding bill for the National Institutes of Health, which finances many such experiments, is scheduled to come before the House of Representatives. California Republican William Dannemeyer plans to offer an amendment that would drastically increase the already stringent restrictions on the use of human fetuses for research purposes. A similar measure was passed by the House last year but defeated in the Senate. Congressman Henry Waxman, who opposes the amendment, argues that "fetal research saves lives, prevents or cures chronic diseases and makes pregnancy safer. As a result...
...months, President François Mitterrand has come under mounting criticism for his handling of the economy. He has been berated for increased government spending and successive devaluations of the franc. Fellow Socialists have groaned about his stringent austerity program, designed to bring the soaring foreign trade deficit under control and to curb France's 8.5% inflation. Students, shopkeepers and even policemen took to the streets last spring to vent their displeasure with the policies of his two-year-old government. His approval rating has plunged from 50% to 35% in the past year. Last week the President endured...