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Specifically, protestors say the stringent conditions the two organizations impose on countries to which they lend money cause increases in unemployment, poverty and environmental destruction in those nations...
...strike a gun safety deal with the federal government, issued a "clarification" of the terms of their agreement, essentially removing the teeth from the groundbreaking deal. While government officials maintain that Smith & Wesson agreed to several initiatives, including restricting sales of the company's products to dealers who followed stringent background check and safety procedures, the company disagrees with that interpretation, dismissing the government's claims...
...this apparent earnestness is surely due to the strict laws that still govern letter writing. For all the talk of "netiquette" (which delights Miss Manners), e-mail has yet to succumb to the rule of a similar code: smiley faces and other vulgarities are allowed, and even the most stringent rules of grammar are regularly relaxed...
...thought Harvard Admissions was stringent! The Men Who Drink consists of no more than 10 Princetonians: all male, all seniors and all members of the Tower eating club, home to the campus' politicos. It is an exclusive group within an exclusive club, by no means an exhaustive roster of Tower's senior guys...
...manufacturer has joined Colt in a deal with the government, will other, smaller gun makers head to Washington as well, ready to cut a bargain? "It's quite possible," says Branegan. This spirit of compromise won't sit well with the NRA, whose position has only grown more stringent over the past few months. " Gun makers have been more amenable to change than the NRA," says Branegan. "They have a business to run, and the NRA doesn't have to worry as much about public relations." And although NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre seems to enjoy his newly visible...