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Also, the U.N.'s Kofi Annan has proposed loosening the strictures governing Iraq's oil sales as an incentive for Iraqi cooperation with U.N. inspectors and Albright said she supports that.
Another inference might be that the same tolerance displayed by Greeks in their dealings with resident foreigners—at any rate, American and European ones—has been extended to English words which are, as noted, largely exempted from the strictures of Greek grammar and allowed to retain their alien habit.
The book is, despite these strictures, worth reading, and judicious readers will probably separate the genuine from the dubious.
Another is that moral strictures have loosened, at least when it comes to political leaders.
When McDonald took over, many of the men rebelled against the program's strictures, especially the random drug testing.