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Effective January 1 this year has been a new Senate rule, aimed to tighten the restriction of newsletter content to legislative rather than "political" matters. Personal references to a senator--his name, any personal pronoun or the ubiquitous "The Senator"--now are limited to no more than five per page. Predictably, this limit surprised a number of Senate press secretaries, especially those accustomed to a writing style peppered with phrases like "I believe that..." and "I have sponsored a bill that would...." The Senate Select Committee on Standards and Conduct ("The Ethics Committee") agreed to this new rule last November...
...eighth, though, the Eagles' last chance (it's dangerous to play under the lights when the field doesn't have any lights), Clifford lost his touch, and before you could say Harry Ohanesian, the latter hit a two-run homer to tighten matters...
...bill would also tighten up regulation of bank holding companies and require all financial institutions offering checking accounts to keep reserves at levels set by the Federal Reserve Board. That would make easier the board's task of setting and carrying out a monetary policy to influence the course of the economy. The bill would make foreign banks operating in the U.S. subject to the same restrictions as domestic banks. That provision would stop the foreign banks from operating in several states at the same time, as some now do, to the dismay of domestic banks, which are confined...
...owned 17 banks with assets of $1.1 billion, followed it into bankruptcy a few days later. Rightly or wrongly, many Congressmen believe that closer regulation would have kept the banks from overextending themselves. So the creation of a new Federal Banking Commission seems almost certain, and the drive to tighten regulation has aroused new interest in much broader financial reform...
Hurlbut-Prescott followed with a thrilling one-point victory against a quick, aggressive, Straus team. Straus jumped out to a 16-2 lead in the opening five minutes behind the hot shooting of Steve Potysman. Hurlbut-Prescott was forced to tighten its man-to-man defense and began to eat away at the Straus lead...