Word: stringent
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Once compelled to disarm Leoanon Israel acted not with brutal decisiveness but with the supreme caution of a nation abhorrent to war Guided by the most stringent of ethics. Israeli forces resisted the indecent trials of an ignoble foe. They never veered from a commitment to morality even when it hundred then immediate goals Conscience forced Israeli tank drivers to halt along routes where the PLO had placed Lebanese babies. It curtailed the assault of houses of worship where the PLO were strategically ensconced. And it prolonged a war of atrophy in Beirut where citizens held captive were spared...
...negotiating with the International Monetary Fund for much needed aid. Bankers say at least $400 million would be required to ease Ghana's problems in 1983. In return, the IMF is likely to demand a devaluation of the cedi, Ghana's grossly overvalued currency, along with other stringent austerity measures. Any such agreement, however, could easily spark another coup by revolutionary elements within the military. The powerful radicals, says a former Ghanaian army officer, would "like to turn Ghana into a Cuba overnight and get rid of the last vestiges of private enterprise." As Rawlings vacillates between unpalatable...
...opposite has happened with START, at least on the American side. In the course of the negotiations, the Reagan Administration's position has hardened. The chief U.S. negotiator, Ambassador Edward Rowny, 65, must now press for a list of Soviet concessions that has grown longer and more stringent than the measures he originally presented last summer...
Working with Curtis, Wouk quickly learned how stringent TV's narrative requirements are. "Only 15% to 20% of the material in the book is on the screen," he notes. "The film medium can say a lot more in a hurry. The attack on the refugees fleeing from Cracow to Warsaw was built sentence by sentence in the book in order to engage the reader's imagination. In a few seconds on the screen, however, you have flames, zooming planes, horses rearing, people falling...
...veto override is a milestone in the national movement to pressure the South Africa government into discarding its in stitutionalized racism Massachusetts is the first state to enact such strict investments guidelines Connecticut and Michigan recently adopted less stringent divestment rules and may encourage other states to follow suit Sen. Jack Backman (D-Brookline), one of the original sponsors of the bill, noted recently that 15 other legislatures are considering similar measures, adding "I hope this is the beginning of a snow ball effect all over the country...