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...only begun to feel the brunt of governmental efforts to monitor certain projects, he said. It has also worked extensively over the past year to manage visa delays and new, more stringent registration requirements that foreign students across the nation have faced...
Last spring, the committee settled on a stringent set of regulations, including a drastic cut in permitted building height on the most controversial site, the Mahoney’s Garden Center plot—from 120’ to 24?...
...kill the bacteria that cause leprosy, but it does change the body's immunological and inflammatory response to those bacteria - which is why researchers are investigating its potential uses in autoimmune disorders like HIV, Behçet's disease and Crohn's disease. This time around researchers are taking stringent precautions against any possible embryo-damaging side effects. They insist that women of childbearing age use two forms of contraception and undergo pregnancy tests before starting thalidomide treatment, and that men also use contraception in case sperm might be affected. They advise too that the precautions continue for a month...
...chance, a national crackdown on China's infamously dangerous mines had recently gotten underway, with Beijing requiring the mines either to close or meet more-stringent operating standards. So officials from the local coal safety-inspection department arrived in Longshan in late April to check the town's six private mines. Youbao shut down for two months during the inspection, and the locals thought their problems might be coming to an end. It wasn't to be. By late June, Youbao had secured a license to operate?and Longshan's houses started to shake again...
...schools. "It's an opportunity to give the highest-risk students the support services they need to make their re-entry work," she says. A similar philosophy has worked well in Los Angeles, where the County Office of Education operates 70 of these schools. They combine individual attention with stringent academic standards and an insistence on personal responsibility. Students must sign a contract stipulating that they will behave...