Word: tightener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elastic Rules. In one effort to limit such legerdemain, the Securities and Exchange Commission expects within a week or two to tighten the disclosure rules for companies seeking to float securities. Companies will be required in registration statements to divulge their sales and pretax profits for each line of business that contributes more than 10% to the total. Firms that engage in only one activity will have to abide by the 10% rule in showing sales by product or service. Though the new regulations will not apply directly to annual reports, many companies have already begun revealing operating data once...
...answer is that not even a President can be fully trusted with money because he is inevitably a political creature-and any moves to tighten money are political poison. European central bankers are particularly happy that Martin has so much power. They figure that politicians have a clearly inflationary bias and that the U.S. needs a man with Martin's independence and integrity to take the necessary, if politically unpopular, steps required to help stabilize demand and prices. When rumors went around in 1967 that Martin might not be reappointed as chairman, some European central bankers observed that...
Radcliffe will increase its night watchman force and reactivate a police alarm system as part of an effort to tighten security in the dormitories, J. Boyd Britton, administrative vice president of Radcliffe said yesterday...
...sales have rolled along on a plateau since last fall. The federal budget is expected to shift from last year's deficit of $25 billion to a small surplus in fiscal 1969, resulting in far less Government-generated economic demand. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve Board has moved to tighten the money supply. After growing at an annual rate of more than 7% in late 1968, the supply rose at a 3.7% rate in January, and is expected to show even slower growth in February...
...first place finish in the 50 freestyle to draw within 6 points of the Tigers. It was the closest Harvard would come. Princeton staged its disastrous four-event sweep and the meet was over. Although taking firsts in he remaining events, the best the Crimson could do was tighten the score...