Word: stringent
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Harvard's program address the new Massachusetts welfare requirements, which are among the most stringent in the nation...
...count elective courses in the decision to award Summa Cum Laude degrees while decreasing the number of Summa recipients to between four and five percent of the total degree candidates. We are concerned that the proposal's recommendations are too vague and we hope that the Faculty will be stringent in the requirements according to which it ultimately makes these decisions. More importantly, though, we encourage the Faculty to not reduce the percentage of Summa recipients for the sake of numbers alone; instead, we hope that the Faculty will define clear qualifications for receiving Summa and will award as many...
...that the problem lies not so much with the Coop or even Book Tech, which makes those lovely bound books with tables of contents and page numbers, as with the copyright laws. According to Mo Shepard of Book Tech, 50 percent of sourcebooks costs are copyright fees. Whether such stringent copyright laws are valid or not is debatable, but the laws are enforced and it is understandable to obey them. The other 50 percent is profit and expenses. "We're not making $100 sneakers with slave labor in Taiwan," Mr. Shepard reminded me. Certainly not--the production of Xeroxes...
...Alan Solomont, a Massachusetts nursing-home mogul who was host to the June 3 event in Washington, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shone brightest of all. A few weeks before the dinner, Solomont had visited Shalala with a team of lobbyists to press for less stringent enforcement of nursing-home regulations. Solomont, a leading Democratic fund raiser and an occasional jogging partner of Clinton's, kept on lobbying throughout the campaign to win major concessions for his industry over the objections of consumer advocates. He got much of what he wanted...
...Istook's stringent concern for the federal pocketbook is well known: a recent study rated him in the top 5% in Congress on fighting wasteful government spending. He's also conservative socially, and proposed a measure that would have required parental consent for minors to get contraceptives or treatment of sexually transmitted diseases...