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...percent and Native Americans had the lowest admit rate at 16 percent. Whites in the class of 1994 were admitted at a 19 percent rate, Hispanics at a 20 percent rate and Asian Americans at a 17 percent rate. Harvard's admit rates for Blacks were the most stringent of virtually all 31 other institutions while Wellesley, at 74 percent, had the highest admissions rates for Blacks...
...public policy, ideas have been proposed to financially assist single mothers. The Family Support Act of 1988 requires states to impose legal child support obligations on an increasing number of fathers, and to force a greater percentage of those fathers to meet their obligations. Many support even more stringent regulations...
...Brown said he felt vindicated by current California Governor Pete Wilson's report that the state's forestry practices were not stringent enough. Brown said he first supported the practices although critics at the time derided them as economic suicide...
There is no doubt these more stringent measures will inconvenience many honest citizens, forcing them to sacrifice for the good of society. But all citizens make these kind of sacrifices every day. And as sacrifices go, gun control makes more sense than most...
NAFTA and its promise of economic benefits will go a long way in enabling the implementation of stricter scrutiny and more stringent environmental laws. The apocalyptic nightmare of a devastated landscape and the continent-wide lowering of environmental standards presented by the more radical environmentalist factions may make for good theater, but that vision is patently false and unnecessarily alarmist...