Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both houses of the state legislature approved the sweeping provision by voice votes early in December But King expressed reservations about the bill, proposing amendments to make it less stringent...
Yale's policy will probably be more stringent than one revised at Harvard last spring whereby faculty members must report only those activities which are especially time-consuming or infringe on University research...
...credit for Mexico this fall from the International Monetary Fund. De la Madrid also reappointed Miguel Mancera Aguayo as director of the Bank of Mexico. Mancera Aguayo had resigned from the post last September after Lopez Portillo imposed strict regulations on currency exchange. Both men are thought to advocate stringent measures to improve Mexico's troubled economy...
...only alternative in many countries to state-controlled or censored entertainment. Even in European countries where television is pervasive, but often soporific, video cassettes can serve as an antidote to dullness. As VCRS proliferate, governments may be tempted to follow the French precedent of halting the invasion with stringent tariffs and customs restrictions...
Bourgeois's most stringent and satisfactory works tend to be those based on either "primitive" totems or natural forms: coral polyps, breasts, clusters of buds and palps. The totemic pieces cluster sociably together in crowds, tall and etiolated, often made up of worn chips and fragments of wood threaded on a central armature, like shashlik on a skewer, and then painted. Bourgeois likes repetition with small variations: some of her larger pieces, like Number Seventy-Two (The No March), 1972, are composed of hundreds of marble cylinders, their tops lopped and slanted at different angles, clustered on a platform...