Word: tighten
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...this year. Says Don Goodrich, who hopes to sell his Harvester dealership in Gilmore City, Iowa: "You'll see a lot more dealers trying to get out unless there's a turn-around soon." Adds Lloyd Long, a John Deere dealer in Oklahoma: "Reagan tells us to tighten our belts, but this is turning into a tourniquet...
...they are raising ticket prices from an average of $10.50 to as much as $15. In still another effort to add to its considerable success, the N.F.L. is now lobbying in Congress for exemption from the antitrust laws. This would open the way to further expansion. It would also tighten the league's hold over such maverick owners as Al Davis, who is suing the N.F.L. for blocking his plan to move the Raiders from Oakland to Los Angeles...
...normal hit-and-run tactics and showed a surprising ability to reinforce their hard-held mountain positions. As the fighting developed, José Napoleón Duarte, President of El Salvador's civilian-military government, said the army's goal was "to encircle [the guerrillas] and then tighten the noose up the mountainside...
...supply, it buys these securities and pays for them by putting new reserves into the accounts that banks maintain with the Fed. With more reserves now showing in their accounts, the banks have more funds to lend out, and interest rates go down. Conversely, when the Fed wants to tighten up money, it sells securities instead, thereby withdrawing reserves and boosting interest rates...
Only one OPEC supplier, Saudi Arabia, which is currently exporting about 7.5 million to 8 million bbl. a day, could cut back production sharply enough to tighten the world market without doing grave damage to its own internal economy. Though Saudi Petroleum Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani has been purposefully vague about his country's plans, reports out of the Persian Guff banking center of Bahrain last week suggested that the desert kingdom may be preparing to trim production at least somewhat this spring...