Word: tightener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the recovery from the last serious postwar recession of 1973-75, economic growth eventually gave way, beginning in early 1978, to a rebirth of high inflation. Then the Federal Reserve began to tighten up on credit to cool off the economy and bring inflation to heel. Yet making money scarce automatically makes it more costly, thus pushing interest rates up and sending bond prices skidding...
...Administration were simply trying to tighten the belt on foreign aid, its backroom maneuvering toward that end would not seem so callous. But that is clearly not the case; President Reagan just recently requested more guns and assistance for several Latin American countries. The White House simply wants to pressure Israel to get but of Lebanon and change its policies in the occupied territories. Ultimately, Washington hopes to weaken support for Begin and usher the Labor opposition into power...
...making adequate progress on human rights. The next committee hearing on the matter will take place in late January. But Congressional leaders have made it quite clear that this time, they won't back a request to give El Salvador more guns. So the Administration has tried to tighten the reins on d'Aubuisson...
...dean would not predict whether the Faculty would necessarily tighten the pass/fail rules, if it did move to change them. But the overwhelming sentiment about the rules expressed at Monday's Faculty meeting was intense disapproval...
...deep pleasure in the making and keeping of an enemy lies not in his redeeming social value but in the peculiar passion he lends to life. There is simply no force in nature like him, none that can so suck the oxygen from the air, so tighten the skin about the ears, so clench the fists, sweat the palms, so press the tongue against the mouth's roof or stretch the nerves Like piano wires. His concentration on you is total. He cares more about your welfare than you do yourself, and he asks so little in return. Only...