Word: stringent
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...economic elites, who are expected to dismantle the business culture that made them rich even while it dragged their nations into crisis. In the Asian Pacific, where much of the current trouble was brought on by buddy-buddy capitalism and closed-door banking practices, the fund wants more stringent borrowing rules, more open bank reporting and freer trade policies...
...accepting the money, South Korea agreed to stringent IMF conditions. The 1998 growth rate must be cut to 3 percent; inflation must be kept below 5 percent; and the current-account deficit must be slashed to within 1 percent of GDP. There's precious little sugar with this medicine ? Seoul must maintain flexible monetary policies and allow temporary hikes in interest rates, says the IMF. A final bitter blow is that foreign investors will be allowed to increase their shareholdings in Korean companies to 50 percent this year ? up from the 26 percent limit currently allowed by the government...
...only does California have the nation's most stringent agricultural regulations, but John Kovacevich says that he could not staff his farm if he forced his pickers to work under terrible conditions...
Last week, the Senate approved a less stringent version of the bill by a 22-14 margin. The House last week passed by an 81-79 margin a bill identical to the one it rejected last night
During the one-and-a-half hour services, the rabbi spoke about the need for Harvard students to strive for self-fulfillment rather than a stringent idea of success...