Word: tightenings
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...impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system being, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...political scapegoat - has altered the thinking of anti-Castro forces in the U.S. Since many of them see in Payá the first real chance to grow democracy from within the country, even hard-line exile groups like Miami's Cuban American National Foundation are advising Bush not to tighten the embargo. Last week, a bill was reintroduced in the Senate that would abolish the U.S. ban on travel to Cuba. Wresting the Cuba debate away from the pro- and anti-Castro extremists may be Payá's most significant accomplishment. "This isn't about war mongering anymore," he says...
...choice of alcohol as an early priority may prove to be a controversial one. Lewis was blasted at times during his eight-year tenure for various efforts to tighten Harvard’s policies on alchohol...
Consumers are buying gadgets with names like Phone Butler and TeleZapper to help keep unwanted salespeople at bay. But the callers keep developing new technologies to defeat the gadgets. Federal and state legislators are passing laws to tighten regulation of telemarketers. President Bush recently signed a bill authorizing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to create a national do-not-call registry, which anyone can sign up for online beginning July 1 and by phone soon thereafter. Eventually the list will be merged with similar lists maintained by 30 states--a chore that may take up to two years. Companies must...
...depending on a decision that could change. "The wish to die is certainly not enough. I have had many people in my office saying 'Please, let me die.' In many cases, there was a solution," says Thomas Schlaepfer, a psychiatry professor at Bern University Hospital in Switzerland. Legislation to tighten the rules on assisted suicide is wending its way through Swiss parliament, but passage is at least a year off. In the meantime, Zurich authorities may at least try to push groups like Dignitas out of residential areas by categorizing them with sex outlets under zoning laws. "Living here...