Word: stringent
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Some ABC executives may regret that they are telling this one. In selling ABC the rights to his 1,042-page tome, author Wouk (who also co-wrote the teleplay) demanded stringent restrictions on advertising. No commercials for personal-care products such as laxatives and foot powder. No commercial breaks longer than two minutes. Perhaps most galling to the network, no promotional spots for other ABC shows except at the beginning and end of each episode...
...proposal calls for the immediate banning of certain practices and mandates more comprehensive and stringent regulations over the next few years. Some of the practices being prevented--such as the grinding up of baby chicks--are not even used in the state and haven't been for several decades. They are included mainly for their shock value, in hopes of provoking a visceral rather than reasoned response to this problem through lurid distortions...
Brown may have learned his lesson about NCAA investigations, but does he realize that every time a college basketball program tampers with NCAA regulations, no matter how stringent they may be, it's a big deal...
During the past several years, Massachusetts revenue caps for hospitals--which put a ceiling on the amount a hospital can increase its budget in a year--have forced hospitals to juggle their budgets, often cutting important programs. Because of the stringent state caps, many local hospitals have done away with their "I.V. teams" or technicians responsible for putting needles and catheters into veins. Without I.V. teams, patients must let interns fresh out of medical school take their chances at hitting a vein...
There aren't many other alternatives. There is little personal incentive to carpool, and emissions controls can hardly become more stringent. Denver could build a mass rapid transit system, such as a light-rail system, and in fact Denver civic leaders have been talking for years about doing just that. Such a long term investment would likely be less expensive than paying the short term costs of automotive adjustments each year. But the money for such an investment would, of course, have to come from the taxpayers...