Word: stringently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Socialists launched a veritable revolution, nationalizing banks, raising the minimum wage and installing a wealth tax. Though these moves did spur consumer-driven growth, they also led to runaway inflation, a spiraling trade deficit and a sagging franc. Less than two years into the revolution, Mitterrand imposed stringent austerity measures to shore up the franc, ultimately turning his back on leftist economics. In foreign policy, Mitterrand, though instinctively hostile to U.S. domination, nonetheless proved a staunch ally at critical moments--like the 1991 Gulf War, to which he committed French combat troops. Determined to secure France's position...
...high school science whiz kids. The second component is actual fissionable material--55 lbs. of enriched uranium, say, which would be enough to turn the heart of New Orleans into radioactive dust. With the increasing use of nuclear technology around the world and the destabilization of Russia, the once stringent global controls on uranium and plutonium are increasingly being subverted. U.S. intelligence officials admit that a terrorist would have no more difficulty slipping a nuclear device into the U.S. than a drug trafficker has bringing in bulk loads of cocaine...
...maybe it should be. Panelist Henry Blackburn, a professor of public health at the University of Minnesota, thinks federal standards aren't stringent enough. "Drugs have to produce evidence of benefit, but food supplements do not," he points out. He is also troubled by the fact that the FDA has no money to do its own studies and thus has to rely almost entirely on research done by the petitioners. cspi's Jacobson too is concerned that responsibility for demonstrating a food's safety is shifting to the wrong hands. He notes, "Judging from the FDA's handling of olestra...
...Watergate. You might have known it would trace back to President Nixon somehow. After Nixon's resignation, Congress enacted more stringent taxpayer privacy laws to protect against future attempts to get confidential information on people the government didn't like...
...First Amendment recognizes that a democracy cannot dictate what is the truth. Attempts to do so often bring about the exact opposite (witness the rise of neo-Nazis in Germany, despite stringent censorship). If Ben-Shachar considered the implications of his argument, he would realize that it could have been used to silence the opponents of slavery in the 19th century and campaigners for civil rights in the 20th century. Those individuals who disagree with the "core values" of a society are in fact those most in need of the protections of the First Amendment. If the protections of free...