Word: tighter
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Although Detroit railed against the proposed standards, the fact is that some cars already meet or exceed part of the requirements. Reason: automakers have complied since 1983 with California's pollution laws, which are the strictest in the U.S. and will become even tighter in the 1990s, when they are to serve as models for the rest of the country. Such 1989 cars as the South Korean-built Pontiac LeMans and Japan's Nissan Maxima emit less than 0.2 gram of nitrogen oxide per mile. At the same time, Chrysler sells its California dealers a $100 pump that helps cars...
...chamber voted to dramatically liberalize abortion restrictions in the District of Columbia. That was the first time since 1980 that the chamber had rejected tighter limits...
...when the funding became discretionary in 1984, in order that authority would not be solely in the hands of an Assistant Secretary, a committee was set up consisting of the Under Secretary, the Assistant Secretary and the executive assistant to the Secretary. With hindsight, I would have imposed tighter controls on the committee's discretion...
...most painful job was approaching grieving relatives for missing information, as well as for photographs of the victims. In many cases, the relatives wanted to keep their sorrow private. In others, paradoxically, they did not want to cooperate with a project that might promote tighter gun laws...
...afraid that the force of ideological conservatism among faculty and American intellectuals in general is responsible for closing the American mind much tighter and farther than any other existing attitude toward education at large. Thus, only leadership from the alumni, trustees, the president and progressive faculty members can move this issue off of dead center. In any case, I would hope that Dean of the Faculty Michael Spence exercises the leadership which is often initially necessary to build a lasting concensus among the faculty on such matters...