Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chief Justice's points appeared to stem from a belief that the "massive safeguards for accused persons" built up by the judicial system in recent decades are out of proportion with the protection now afforded to law abiding citizens. He urged more stringent standards on bail to prevent the release of suspects likely to commit a crime between their arrest and trial. For those who end up behind bars, he renewed his familiar proposals for better facilities, improved training, and more sensible incentives to "learn the way out of prison...
...Crimson will also have to beef up recruiting. In past years recruiting has been fairly low-key Jue to Harvard's stringent academic requirements and the relatively relaxed competition or women's sports in the Ivy League. But now that the quality of swimming is rising and times are dropping. Harvard will have to woo prospects more aggressery. And even that may not be enough--Harvard's high academic standards may be part of the problem...
...sequence with pattern, events with perceptions. The virtual disappearance of plot from short fiction produced, to be sure, plenty of wispy work, attenuated aperçus evoking the memory of an echo of a sigh. But the masters of the new form understood and met its twin demands: a stringent economy of language fused to a profligacy of inference...
...Health, Education and Welfare guidelines based on it. All educational institutions receiving federal aid must obey the guidelines, which generally give a student and his parents access to his school file, but make third-party access to the collected information difficult. Harvard's stance on privacy is much more stringent, restricting access to records far more severely than the law requires...
...student letters and applications. Most of this information enters the student's file with the student's full knowledge, usually at his request. Although the law allows anyone officially connected with the school who has a legitimate interest in your education access to the files, Harvard is far more stringent. Only you, your House officers and people to whom you give permission have access. Even federal investigators (including FBI investigators attempting to grant you a security clearance) need your written permission. And once permission is granted, the file is not just handed over. The investigator must ask specific questions which...