Word: stringent
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...meddle in an underhanded way in the affairs of other countries. They also argue that given the nature of American society, covert activities are unlikely to stay secret for long. One reason is that after the Watergate-era investigations of abuses by the CIA, Congress insisted on a more stringent watchdog role. Another is that the nature of journalism has changed. In 1961 the New York Times voluntarily withheld information it had about the impending Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba; today major news organizations are inclined to publish that type of story...
...highlight of the stop in Mexico City was an hour long interview with Mexico's President of five months, Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, who told the group that in trying to combat the current crisis, "we have had to combine the need for stringent, bitter and firm measures with the need to uphold our free democratic system." Excerpts from the President's remarks appear in this week's World section. In addition to meeting the President and presenting him with a glass eagle as a memento of the occasion, the group talked with the ministers...
...guidelines represent recognition of the weaknesses in Harvard's undergraduate program and call for more stringent selection and evaluation of teaching follows and teaching assistants, Sidney Verba '53, CUB chairman and associate dean of the Faculty for Undergraduate Education said yesterday...
...Whatever his disadvantages, Mauroy is perhaps the one leader who can cajole the Socialist electorate into swallowing the bitter pill of belt tightening. He pushed through the unpopular wage and price freeze last year. For Mitterrand, there is also an advantage in having Mauroy absorb the unpopularity that the stringent new economic measures will generate. If Mauroy becomes too much of a drag on the party, the President can replace him before the next legislative elections, which are scheduled for 1986. Mitterrand thus has given Mauroy two years in which to perform a healing miracle on the French economy...
...battle lines could not be more sharply drawn. In general, the Commerce Department argues that U.S. business suffers when the rules are too stringent, when items with potential military application are readily available to the Soviet Union from other nations, or when the line between an innocent use of technology and a military use is so vague as to be indistinguishable in practice. The Pentagon, on the other hand, would like veto power over the export from the U.S. of any technology that some day could conceivably endanger U.S. security...