Word: stringently
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Clark, a vice-president of the card division at American Express, agrees. "For graduating seniors, our application requirements are less stringent than our ordinary standards," he says. Why? Graduating seniors are more likely to find better-paying jobs, and thus are better credit risks...
...well had it kept producing about as much as it had previously. And the IMF does not enter a foreign nation unless the nation is having severe difficulties in meeting its balance-of-payments. By the time the IMF came on the scene with promises of loans under stringent conditions Jamaica was already in economic convulsions. To blame the IMF for Jamaica's downfall is to point to a symptom and not the cause. Furthermore, the IMF has demonstrated worldwide that its help has stabilized economies of all sorts. After all, no country can import more than it exports...
...first game, Eliot House combined stringent defense and six Lowell fumbles to defeat the hapless Bell Boys, 18-0. Running behind an offensive line which looked down at their Mather counterparts, South House backs Rick Gallito and Carl Murillo powered for long gainer after long gainer...
...then Reagan got in two silly bits of trouble himself. First, he issued a written statement criticizing the Environmental Protection Agency for being overly stringent that concluded: "Air pollution has been substantially controlled." Asked by a reporter to explain how he could possibly believe that the air was clearing up, he said, "I don't think I've said anything of the kind." It was pointed out that the statement had been released the day before under his name. Responded Reagan: "Isn't it substantially under control? I think it is." Reporters were left to wonder...
...ports, few were built to standards as strict as those that governed the construction of the Prinsendam. The others were designed to meet earlier, less rigorous safety specifications and are registered in flag-of-convenience countries, such as Liberia and Panama, whose shipping regulations are not as stringent as those of The Netherlands and the U.S. Said a U.S. maritime official: "Their paint is fresh and they look nice, but a lot of them are floating firetraps...