Word: stringently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble is that, under existing laws, advance approval by the Internal Revenue Service is not needed to form a tax-free foundation. To start up, all that a hopeful foundation founder has to do is to satisfy a few state-set requirements, and they are usually not very stringent. Says Patman: "The IRS tries to give the impression that it double-checks all foundation operations. Nothing could be further from the truth. Only a very small fraction are checked in any given year." But IRS is now warning that it has "doubts about the legality" of ABC-type foundations...
Responding to the complaints, the state in recent years has adopted ever-tougher curbs on the strippers. Most stringent of all was the order signed this month by outgoing Governor Edward T. Breathitt ten hours before turning over his office to incoming Republican Louie B. Nunn. The order forbids strip miners from working slopes steeper than 28°. Straight up in the air went the industry, thundering that it would be driven out of business, which was exactly what it said last year when the maximum slope was put at 33°. Since then, new operations have doubled...
...Meat-inspection standards for processors and distributors covered only by state law became more stringent. The statute requires states to raise their standards to at least the federal levels already applied to meat sent across state lines. Other consumer-oriented legislation extended the Flammable Fabrics Act to include all fabrics used in clothing and household furnishings and established a National Commission on Product Safety to study potentially hazardous merchandise...
British press laws are among the most stringent in the Western world and newsmen are properly chary of them. Truth is never a defense. Even so, the London Sunday Times was not wary enough when it ran a picture caption descnbmg Michael Abdul Malik, a Black Muslim indicted for inciting race hatred, as a "brothel keeper, procurer and property racketeer." That was the truth but it revealed Malik's record before he came to trial-a violation of the law. Times Editor Harold Evans was haled into court on contempt charges...
...letter to Robert W. Haney, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Adams House, Schlesinger said that "any reasonably intelligent or humane man . . . (would have recognized) the stringent moral and emotional predicament created for young men today by the war in Vietnam...