Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another member said flatly, "I don't think any legislation as stringent as this will pass." He thought that his committee would not reach the final decision on the bills, feeling that they would be referred to the State Commission on Communism. Pointing to their perennial character, he commented, "I'm sorry, but these bills are such an old story I can't get excited about them any more...
...Committee was generally satisfied with recent more stringent safety standards for current vaccine production and said, "the protection to expected is now greater than the potential risk to the vaccinated individual" and his contacts...
...twelve years ago, and put Conference Organizer Lewis Purkey to work on it. Says Purkey: "It took me and my staff three weeks just to find out how many committees we had and what they were supposed to do. We found that we had about 200." Purkey set up stringent rules governing the forming of committees and running of conferences. Now every new committee must have a written outline stating its purposes before it can be formed and must convince Purkey that the purposes are worthwhile. When a committee's useful life is ended, it must disband. Discussions...
Everywhere, the Communists demanded stringent security measures, forced the Indian authorities to keep newsmen a safe distance from the Marshal and the Commissar. But when these measures broke down in Calcutta, the shadowy Third Man suddenly materialized. His pale cod eyes like ice, his big hands gripped into fists, he shouted harsh orders that made lesser goons leap. A snap of his fingers brought Soviet ambassadors running to his side...
...Neither stringent cost-cutting nor the Geneva conference failure, said he, would substantially affect military expenditures (now $34.5 billion yearly). "Our budgets for the defense program have not been built on day-to-day shifts in diplomatic discussions. We have built them on a long-range basis of strengthening U.S. power. We are engaged in a regular, permanent strengthening program...