Word: stringently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have launched a small missile against the airliner from a vantage point as yet undetected. The stories were cautious, with the ifs loudly iterated and "theory" worn like a reluctant fig leaf. Yet by Friday, there were indications that the Federal Government was weighing a decision to order stringent security directives not before seen in peacetime to all U.S. airlines, which would leave little doubt that the fall of TWA Flight 800 was deliberate terror. If the plane was sabotaged, the disaster becomes America's third milestone on a forced march into a demonic dimension, even as the country...
...legislation required the FAA to speed up explosives-detection research, to heighten security checks on airport personnel and to release passenger manifests within three hours of a crash. The deadline set by Congress: November 1993. The FAA failed to adhere to that timetable, blaming Congress for setting overly stringent standards and requiring complicated tests of the new technologies. But that same year--five full years after Lockerbie--the inspector general's office of the Department of Transportation released a report blasting the FAA's overall security program. It is the only such report that has been made public...
...biologics compliance office: "There simply was not a lot of evidence of changes or improvements." Two years into Mrs. Dole's presidency, the FDA, still frustrated, went to court to force the Red Cross to act. The result was a May 1993 consent decree setting out a stringent five-year plan for reform...
...argument's sake that the abuse of a law allowing assisted suicide is a distinct possibility [MEDICINE, April 15]. Would it not be better to tailor the law with stringent conditions and guidelines rather than throw it out altogether? Many of the laws of this country are susceptible to abuse. Consider freedom of speech or the right to bear arms. Should we throw them out? The decision to die should be personal. Only the individual who is suffering can say when bearable pain has become unbearable. If that person wishes to be dead, why are we arguing? Whose life...
Some academic institutions facing the stringent standards say many of the regulations designed for the industrial world do not apply well to universities, according to Vautin...