Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...faraway vacation trips. The nation's twelve major airlines expect to lose as much as $125 million before taxes in 1970; Trans World Airlines alone will show a deficit of up to $65 million. The industry predicts even bigger losses in 1971 and 1972, although it has made stringent economies. The number of flights has been reduced, and United even saved $250.000 a year by eliminating macadamia nuts on most runs (passengers get peanuts instead...
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 cooperation with its head resident, should be allowed the choice to vote for or against "open" open house...
Security at Rockeffeller's ballroom was tight, as is usual for the millionaire's headquarters. At the entrance to Goodell headquarters three guards checked credentials, a more stringent measure than the Senator usually takes. Reporters were given buttons with pictures of Wendell Wilkie, another Republican loser, for their identification...
...Comers. In fact, open admissions is hardly a new idea. For years, even Ivy League colleges accepted many whose only qualification was that they could pay the tuition. Only the poor had to fight for entrance, by competing for scholarships. Stringent selections began in earnest after World War II, when U.S. colleges were deluged with applicants. But many state universities continued to admit all high school graduates, then flunked out droves of dullards; most institutions made exceptions for athletes and alumni sons. All comers have been welcome at most of the two-year community colleges that now enable...
...urged consideration of an "incomes policy" of voluntary controls. Banker David Rockefeller urged Nixon to depart from his economic game plan in favor of a little jawboning -or presidential persuasion-in an effort to hold down wage and price hikes. Even Congress, which has been notably reluctant to pass stringent anti-inflation measures, showed signs of its deep concern over the worsening economic situation. Democrats on the House Banking and Currency Committee, for instance, backed legislation giving the President power to freeze wages and prices for eight months...