Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Persian Gulf War, five years ago. New procedures will include beefing up of airport security personnel, searches of unattended cars at airports, closer surveillance of baggage areas and heightened warnings to passengers not to carry anything aboard an aircraft for someone they do not know. During Desert Storm, more stringent precautions were taken...
...rest of the country, affirmative action is undergoing a stringent revaluation. The California Civil Rights Initiative, a proposed state referendum, would prohibit race-based employment programs, public education admissions and government contracts. Meanwhile, President Clinton is reviewing the government's affirmative action program as Republicans in Congress attempt to dismantle...
Mack sounds like the sensitive type, and financially secure to boot. But before you eligible bachelors get too excited and decide to write back to Mack, you might compare yourselves against Mack's stringent requirements. First, you'll have to be the hyper-virile type, because among all gays, "effeminacy, in speech, looks, or mannerisms, is very common." Then you'll have to bring your voice down a few octaves, because "their is a tendency to whine and shriek." And don't pay too much attention to your appearance, because, of course, "gays show much greater vanity." But be gorgeous...
After a week of tortuous negotiations the Senate approved $16 billion in cuts from the current budget. The Senate package, which restores money cut by the House to social programs-a result of Democratic prodding-will have to be reconciled with the House's more stringent $17 billion in cuts...
...Perhaps by legal standards she was O.K., butHarvard's standards are obviously in this casemore stringent than the legal standards," saidformer U.C. President David L. Hanselman...