Though mortgages can be obtained, the requirements are stringent, and interest rates in recent years have been as high as 12 percent, though now they're closer to 9 percent, Mr. Amador said.
However, stringent conflict of interest policies are already in place and there have been no cases of researchers profiting from EPA's scientific decisions.
A further criticism is that the prerequisites for entry (a GRE score of at least 1800) may be too stringent, diminishing the interest of many young scientists while artificially defining the new population of bioinformaticists.
Sass urges the U.S. government and the National Academies to adopt more stringent conflict of interest guidelines, quoting a Lancet 2002 editorial that actually addressed manipulation of scientific panels by politicians.
The FSA has stringent conflict of interest protocols for county committee members.
And its failure to pass a stringent conflict-of-interest law frees Mr. Berlusconi to introduce his own.
Those provisions enacted stringent conflict-of-interest rules, required greater disclosure of transactions between management and large shareholders, and imposed tougher requirements on management to monitor internal controls.
It's true that freelance writing is a hard way to make a living, and there's no question we make it harder by imposing these stringent conflict-of-interest rules.
Part of the reason is that the fallout led to new and more stringent conflict-of-interest and disclosure rules — and that those forced many professors to drop lucrative side projects.
The Libyan commitment, these critics argue, never met the stringent test of national interest.
That would allow it to curb the size of new loans, without increasing costs for existing borrowers.An alternative is more vigorous stress tests of mortgage lenders themselves, using stringent scenarios that assume interest rates rise sharply while house prices fall.
