Word: tighten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Risk & Riposte. Many U.S. military men naturally want to tighten the screws, chiefly by increased bombing. Stung by the criticism that air power has failed to stem North Vietnamese infiltration, they argue that, even though prohibited from hitting the North's most important targets, they have managed to knock out two-thirds of its petroleum supply, to keep 250,000 people constantly at work repairing bomb damage, and to deny Communist units 50% of the supplies that combat soldiers normally need...
Wilcox said the essence of the new rules is to loosen slightly lower-level requirements (by allowing students to satisfy them with selected middle group courses) and to tighten slightly the upper-level requirements (by preventing students from counting courses related to concentration toward their distribution requirement...
...pleas that it takes a human behind the wheel to turn a car into a misguided missile. A highway-safety bill, approved 317 to 3 by the House, offers $270 million over three years-$140 million less than a Senate version-as an incentive to states to tighten safety codes and to improve driver training, testing and inspection of vehicles and highway design. The House also decreed that states that do not set up an approved road-safety program by Jan. 1, 1968 will forfeit 10% of the federal aid that they receive for highways under other laws...
...company of the Royal Australian Regiment's 6th Battalion stumbled onto an estimated two Viet Cong battalions. In the first withering exchange of gunfire, all twelve men of the Australian leading group were killed or wounded. As a torrential rain began to fall, the Communists sought to tighten a noose around the Aussie company, charged in human-wave attacks that were repeatedly beaten back. The fighting was so intense that the Aussies almost ran out of ammunition, and their helicopters braved heavy ground fire and blinding rain to airlift more into the front line...
Presently before the Bundestag is an Erhard-backed bill that will tighten credit controls by allowing the federal government and West Germany's central bank to decree one-year restrictions on the amount of public and private borrowing. Beyond that, both the federal and state governments will be freed from constitutional obligations to balance their budgets; instead, they will be able to run surpluses or deficits, depending on whether the economy needs to be speeded up or slowed down. Both federal and state governments will be required to present long-term (probably five years), coordinated investment plans; at present...