Word: tightener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This testimonial to the absurdity of TV ratings was given at a special FCC hearing in Manhattan. The commission was collecting the views of "a number of persons who are actively engaged in the creation, production, writing, casting, sale and licensing of programs." Their recommendations were not revolutionary-tighten licensing requirements, weed out the Madison Avenue orchids-but the testimony was considerably more entertaining than most TV fare...
Item by item, Rusk set forth the Kennedy foreign aid program. It would: ¶ Tighten administration by compacting various economic-aid agencies into a single bureau under the State Department...
...hand on Wall Street? Many Wall Streeters fear that in some areas it has. The stock exchanges, acutely aware of the rising fever in the big bull market, are doing what they can to tamp it. The New York Stock Exchange announced last week that it will tighten up its requirements for getting a stock listed. The American Stock Exchange, for the first time in its history, put a ban on stop orders-automatic orders to sell a stock once it reaches a specified price during a decline-on all round-lot transactions...
...effort to tighten up the Crimson defense, Shepard used Phil Bernstein in place of Jim Mullen at first base and Corky Cronin for Billy Rodgers at third in the Princeton game. Bernstein got two hits and should continue to play, but Curly Combs, or even outfielder Mike Drummey might be moved...
...While nobody is seriously talking about abolishing all exemptions-least of all those for children, charities, medical costs and legitimate business expenses-there is a drive shaping up to eliminate some of the outdated and often abused tax shelters, lower the rates. Among other things, the reformers want to tighten the capital-gains law, limit the amounts that home owners can deduct for mortgage interest payments and property taxes, perhaps remove the exemptions for social security benefits...