It took four years, but in October, the City Commission approved his ambitious urban blueprint, Miami 21, which will encourage more mixed use and bring stricter height restrictions to residential areas.
The effort to bring stricter management to the bureau led President Bush to name Robert S. Mueller III, a veteran prosecutor and the United States attorney in San Francisco, to succeed Louis J. Freeh as the F.B.I. director.
In mainland China the communist revolution of 1949 brought strict directives on dress.
The Cultural Revolution (1966 76) brought strict regimentation and a loss of local control to the communes.
In the 1960s, public indignation at the harvest of whitecoats brought strict regulations and tight governmental controls over harvesting activities, particularly with respect to humane killing and the enforcement of annual quotas.
The emphasis on touch brought strict standards of virtuosity, and writing as art was born, replete with an exclusionary mystique, a market, a still-flourishing trade in forgeries and a lineage of geniuses.
Then, as the 20th century dawned on Long Island, commercial hunting was outlawed, a new environmental awareness brought stricter regulations on hunting for sport, suburbia tamed the wilds, and the decoys largely outlived their usefulness as tools.
If a religious revival and an influx of immigrants have brought stricter attitudes toward sex, the teenagers from such backgrounds who stray are less likely to use contraception or seek abortion.
If any subgroup of students misses the federal benchmark in two consecutive years, their campus is placed on "program improvement," a designations that brings stricter oversight with the goal of boosting scores.
