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...ration gasoline and other fuels has been a nightmare haunting the White House since the Arab oil embargo began. The President, who abhors rationing politically, ideologically and administratively, managed to avoid even using the word when he went on television last week to outline a series of less stringent conservation and allocation measures. But by week's end the relentless press of events was sweeping the Administration closer to the dreaded decision...
...Netherlands, the one Common Market nation on the Arab embargo list, some Christmas lights continued to blaze and visitors reported hotel rooms occasionally so toasty that windows had to be thrown open. Though the Dutch led Europe in banning Sunday driving, their other conservation measures are actually less stringent than those of some European neighbors...
Both store spokesmen said that more stringent unit-pricing would result in added work and expense for the stores...
...city are now open to minorities and to women with probably fewer restrictions, less biased exams, lower educational requirements, greater waiving of police records, and more genuine encouragement than one could find anywhere else in the country," The Nation reported in April, 1973. The council passed a stringent rent control law, with enforcement controlled by elected neighborhood councils...
...sought to lead America..." But here again White has failed. For while George McGovern was completely open to close, critical interrogation and analysis, Richard Nixon, the man who was finally made President and thus supposedly the central subject of the book, was hidden behind a personal security more stringent than his national security...