Word: tighten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, the stock market's major concern is how fast the Federal Reserve will tighten up the money supply in its campaign to squelch the pressures and psychology of inflation. Rising taxes will make the battle easier and will siphon funds away from investors. On Jan. 1, Social Security taxes went up by $3.6 billion a year. By April 15, taxpayers must give Washington an extra $11 billion in catch-up payments for the second quarter of 1968, when the 10% income-tax surcharge was not withheld from salaries. With a shrinking federal deficit also sucking steam from...
Brown's strength at defense has been Harvard's weakness. "We need to tighten up in our own zone." Weiland said. 'We hay have been too offensively-minded and we've suffered...
...attempt to establish a running game and force the Harvard defense to tighten up, thus opening the air waves for Domres's soft flips, Columbia stayed completely on the ground for the first 23 minutes of the game...
...Even more disturbing was the indication that two leftist groups (one pro-Peking, the other influenced by Moscow) had played a role in organizing the unrest. Communism has had little or no appeal for the mass of Afghans, but the signs of even slight influence caused the government to tighten up a bill to allow the creation of political parties so as to exclude the Communists...
...held it for four days finally agreed to leave peacefully. And Uruguay's third general strike in a month ended without Pacheco Areco's having had to use emergency measures. The President still needs, however, all the help he can get: he has set out to tighten the belt of a country that is used to wearing it very loose...