Word: stringent
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Surpassing the recommended amount may become even more difficult this year--not only because costs are pushing both jobs and IGans close to their maximum, but also because of more stringent limits on this year's on-campus employment. Largely unendorsed "earning ceilings" in other years had allowed some industrious students to earn the federal work-study allowances of two or three...
...Roman Catholic Church, the other major force in Polish life, has been reluctant to provoke the military government openly, fearing that such a move might lead to more stringent controls and possible "fraternal" assistance from the Soviet Union. Some church sources have conceded in private that Solidarity, as an organization, may have to disappear in order for its ideas to live on. Still, in the absence of any formal opposition to the regime, the church has tried to press the authorities for some form of national dialogue. Last week Archbishop Jozef...
Paris has thus become the Continent's undisputed center of terrorism for a variety of reasons. Traditionally, the country has been known as a land of asylum. It has favored an open visa system, a loose border policy and lax airport checks. Mitterrand has adopted a less stringent policy toward terrorists than his conservative predecessor, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing...
...tradition in Western Europe, the bad news was presented to the public at the height of the summer vacation season in order to lessen the immediate outcry of national pain. With millions of his countrymen at the beaches and in the mountains, Italian Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini proclaimed a stringent austerity package, describing the proposals as being of "historic proportions." They were indeed, but they also contained political dynamite with an unexpectedly short fuse. Only five days after the big economic squeeze was announced, seven Socialist ministers resigned from Spadolini's 28-member Cabinet last week in a move...
...competency debate has its analogues in the shift towards more stringent college admissions requirements for instruction in specific subjects and in the thorny issues of equal access raised by the exodus of-well-off families from public to private schools. Reagan, clearly, would have no qualms about stringent basic-competency programs. Chances are, he would argue that such "survival of the fittest" strategies and the resulting drop in unprepared college students would solve the college competency problem far more efficiently than would struggling to improve the high schools. Conditioned to view education as yet another marginal social program draining...