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Inwood, a transfer from Yale, felt that the decision was unwarranted. she defended herself saying that the board's former president felt the decision was too harsh. Reproducing Georgia Inwood's first endeavor on campus and she criticizes the board for handing down such a stringent decision...
Ford did its share to reduce smog in the Golden State as it unveiled two models that will exceed the first stage of the state's stringent new clean-air code. By improving the catalytic converters in their subcompacts, Ford beat the clock on the tougher standards by four years. Research also continues on vehicles fueled by natural gas and flexible mixtures of up to 85% methanol and gasoline. As a result, car buyers are soon going to face choices much more complicated than merely deciding whether to buy their favorite sedan in green...
...believe, misrepresentative of the UC's fundamental intent in the debate ("UC Defines Rape Narrowly"). The concerns voiced to me by several women center on the fear that rape victims will be less likely to step forward if they believe that the University's policy has become more stringent...
...BUSH ADMINIStration's embodiment of square-jawed Western rectitude. But some in the U.S. military no longer see him that way. Though his forthright account of dozens of House-bank overdrafts while a Congressman satisfied most political observers, it did not wash with citizens of the more stringent military culture. Letters in service newspapers have pointed out that the armed forces would never have tolerated such behavior. Wrote an outraged correspondent in the Army Times: "There have been good troops put out of the services with a bad discharge for having committed lesser offenses than Cheney...
Lewis said the chamber is worried that Cambridge will be the only city to adopt such stringent regulations to comply with national air standards...