Word: stringent
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...thus wasting considerably less food than they do at present, when nobody can predict how many will eat there. In addition, when the number of students eating lunch in the dorms fluctuates greatly, the college could provide box lunches or Refectory slips at the standard price under a less stringent set of restrictions, thereby encouraging students to continue paying Radcliffe rather than a commercial establishment for their mid-day meals. Under such a revised system, Administration and students alike would gain from increased efficiency and convenience...
Since the electorate is dedicated to the status quo and stringent economy, the Democratic candidate, Bernard L. Boutin, promises no radical change. New Hampshire's tax system needs reform badly, for its main sources of money--liquor revenues, a $5 per capita head tax, and a levy on merchandise stocked by storekeepers--are actually regressive with respect to personal income. As one of the five states that have neither a sales nor income tax, it has a constitution that forbids excise duties or any progressive tax, and no candidate for governor since Sherman Adams has suggested reform...
Radcliffe is called a liberal college. Yet Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, and other institutions have less stringent regulations about parietal hours than does Radcliffe. Each house at Radcliffe, in co-operation with its head resident, should be allowed the choice to vote for or against "open" open house...
...earlier days, a corporation was expected to stick to what it knew best. But stringent antitrust laws now discourage fast-growing companies trom mergers with companies too close to their own fields. Result: many companies are forced to move into an entirely different line in an effort to increase their profit margins. Once :hey have made such a move, they find it even easier to continue diversiying. Providence's Textron, caught in the ailing textile industry, has set a record since 1955 of 29 mergers into such fields as electronics, automotive parts, aluminum products and optical equipment. Textiles, once...
...pastoral letter, read from church pulpits all over the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis last week, set down stringent new requirements for Catholic attendance at non-Catholic colleges and universities. "We are alarmed and grieved at the number of graduates who are selecting secular and non-Catholic colleges," wrote St. Louis' Archbishop Joseph E. Ritter. "In our solicitude for our young graduates, we remind them and their parents that they must always be far more concerned about nurturing and protecting their Faith than they are about pursuing higher studies...