1.   Stricter anti-pollution laws may cramp economic growth.

2.   Parliament also approved stricter laws allowing the deportation of illegal immigrants, wider powers for border police, and checks on potential refugees disembarking from aircraft.

3.   Although public opinion favored stricter laws, the battle for gun registration and licensing turned into a bitter political fight.

4.   Another contentious issue is whether federal privacy legislation should override stricter state laws.

5.   Anti-smoking forces will press for even stricter local laws.

6.   But other experts said the federal government should require stricter laws the way that it required the states to raise drinking ages.

7.   Drunken driving deaths are up and the push for stricter laws is faltering, Mothers Against Drunk Driving said in a report Tuesday.

8.   Each pushes for stricter laws.

9.   Fifteen states have stricter laws, taking the vote from all felons, even those who received probation or suspended sentences.

10.   Germany has even stricter laws against belittling Nazi crimes or repeating Nazi propaganda.