Word: stringent
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...vast store of product information, which includes test results on goods as varied as bed sheets and flatbed trucks. Legislation is now in preparation to 1) require producers of household poisons to render their containers "childproof" by making bottles and packages harder to open, 2) set up more stringent health rules in fish-processing plants, and 3) force manufacturers to guarantee the adequate performance of their products and live up to all claims that they make for them. A farther-reaching piece of legislation, being drafted by Senator Moss's Consumer Subcommittee, would set up an independent "consumer council...
Typical of Nader's battle style was his campaign for more stringent federal meat inspection at packing plants. While speed-reading the small print of a House report on Agriculture Department appropriations, Nader noticed that it urged "further studies" of the U.S. meat-inspection program. Did that mean that there had been earlier studies showing that the U.S. had a meat problem? Indeed it did, as Nader found out when he requested a copy of the little-known study at the Agriculture Department. "Nobody ever asked for this before," said the employee who handed it to him. The study gave...
...ground rules. Although a minister who suggested abortion could possibly be accused of criminal conspiracy, he can presume that he is relatively safe from prosecution unless a complaint is lodged against him by one of the women he has counseled. Bielby makes certain that ministers agree to a stringent code that makes the final decision the woman's rather than the minister's. "Our real hope," says Bielby, "is that the abortion laws in the state will be changed so that this kind of service will no longer be necessary...
...Massachusetts Department of Public Health will hold public hearings on air quality standards on Tuesday, November 25, and the coalition is attempting to gain public support for more stringent controls than those proposed by the department...
...thinkers and doers in this experimental human laboratory are immensely busy. Having created so much smog, they are bound to be the first in the alleviation of it, perhaps by perfecting the carbonfree auto engine, perhaps through more stringent traffic legislation. Little by little, they will assume firmer control over environmental deterioration by creating bigger units of government that can act on a regional rather than a local basis...