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Tate's artistic demands on himself are even more stringent than his social demands. His early training was rigorous. "In his Advanced Composition class. Mr. Ransom would assign all of Shakespeare's sonnets for us to study," Tate remembers. "Then we'd have to write a Shakespearean sonnet of our own, then an Italian sonnet...
...students qualify under such a stringent registration process, Burg said that the appeals process which takes place after initial rejection is even more time-consuming and labyrinthine. "If they don't get you on the first try, they'll make you keep coming back for more proof, and finally when your appeal comes up, they'll keep you around for a couple of hours," he said...
Thieu had virtually assured that he would hold power uneasily by the tactics he used in easing his opponents out of the race-starting with his pushing through a stringent election law that eliminated his old enemy, Vice President Ky. That move in turn persuaded Big Minh to withdraw, since he had no hope of winning unless Ky drew off some of Thieu's military support. Faced with the prospect of an uncontested election and Washington's certain displeasure, Thieu blinked once. South Viet Nam's Supreme Court obligingly ruled that Ky's name would...
...they prepare to celebrate Labor Day, 1971, Meany and the nation's other union chiefs are in a far different mood. The man who wined and dined them so graciously that September evening had suddenly, without consulting any of them, imposed the most stringent economic controls in U.S. peacetime history. Most labor leaders are convinced that his rules are patently unfair to their vast constituency?and far too generous to the big businessmen with whom they must bargain for the nation's wages...
...Venezuela, the world's largest oil exporter, remained immune to this nationalistic fever. Now it, too, is succumbing. Last week President Rafael Caldera signed into law a bill nationalizing natural gas. Foreign participation in ownership of banks in Venezuela has been restricted, and a new law setting more stringent standards for investments from abroad is in the offing. But for U.S. investors the most worrisome measures are those that the government has directed toward its foreign-supervised oil concessions...