Word: stringent
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...with Thatcher's performance has risen to 55%. Still, Political Analyst Robert Worcester contends that "she has come through this year reasonably well. She has taken on a tough assignment, squared up to it and bulled ahead." Surprisingly, the polls showed a gain for the government after the stringent March budget, which slashed public programs and upped excise taxes on prescription medicines and beer. The poll result suggested that Thatcher's message is getting through to the public...
...protested that "there seems to be an organized, well-financed lobby that is determined to preserve the natural habitat and comfort of every species except man." But he established an air-resources board and gave it ample power to enforce stiff antipollution standards. He signed smog control laws more stringent than federal requirements. His rigid water pollution controls angered leaders of industry. He set aside an additional 145,000 acres of park lands, including 41 miles of expensive ocean front. He blocked a reservoir that would have submerged the ancestral burial grounds of several Indian tribes. On balance, even liberal...
...several measures making companies and executives more vulnerable to criminal law. For example, one provision was that officials could be tried for "reckless endangerment" if, say, their firm dumped harmful chemicals into a river feeding a municipal water supply. But business lobbyists persuaded the drafters to remove the most stringent measures. The Department of Justice managed to get some of the provisions restored, but only in diluted form. Even so, the Senate bill is tougher than the House version, which, according to Justice, now contains fewer sanctions involving white-collar crime than does existing...
...government's central role in reconstruction made the government's role in economic leadership seem natural. The experience of a stringent allied occupation led to a widespread desire for decontrol and deregulation. The 14 million German refugees who streamed to West Germany before the building of the Berlin wall in 1961 brought high motivation, special skills and training, and they brought relatively low demands on their initial conditions of work. The growth of the trading bloc in Western Europe opened a market for German goods and made obvious the importance of producing industrial goods which can be competitive...
...Technology, an agency not similarly represented in the U.S. cabinet, has a rapidly growing budget that has supported projects in fields like microelectronics, silicon chips, coal gasification, and may soon support steel modernization. Other subsidies have helped prevent the collapse of key companies or lagging sectors, but with more stringent government efforts to impose conditions and require the rationalization of the subsidized industry than would be true in America. It has been effective in responding to the rise in energy costs with an intensification of efforts to sell products abroad, a determination to control inflation by maintaining a healthy mark...