11.   Efforts by some enlightened souls within managed-care firms to establish strict criteria for measuring quality of care have met with icy dismissal by their organizations.

12.   Dutch central bank president Wim Duisenberg is still in favor of applying strict criteria when it comes to qualifying for the single European currency.

13.   European nations must meet strict criteria regarding public deficits, inflation and other targets to join the monetary union.

14.   Greece failed to meet the strict criteria.

15.   Germany has long argued for strict criteria, in order to ensure that the euro is as strong as the deutsche mark.

16.   Gray explained that, before capital murder charges or federal charges under the hate crime statute can be brought, strict legal criteria must be met.

17.   Meanwhile, authorities in New York, where the Holyfield-Lewis draw took place, have established strict criteria by which to select and monitor judges.

18.   Other strict criteria include on public debt and deficits, inflation, interest rates and currency stability.

19.   Schanker assured me that Bargaindog applied strict criteria.

20.   So in the Treaty of Maastricht four years ago the European Union set out a series of strict criteria for membership in a currency union.