Word: tightener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have long contended that it was excessive money growth during most of the 1970s that fueled the high inflation of that decade. Indeed, if the economy is perking along and prices are beginning to inch up early next year, the Federal Reserve may find that it will have to tighten credit in order to preserve its hard-won gains in the price fight. That, some economists fear, could force interest rates back up and abort a recovery before it really takes hold...
...high school girls seem to acquire in the fall: "As you walk beside them after school, they tighten their arms about their books and bend their heads forward to give a more flattering attention to your words, and in the little intimate area thus formed, carved into the clear air by an implicit crescent, there is a complex fragrance woven of tobacco, powder, lipstick, rinsed hair, and that perhaps imaginary and certainly elusive scent that wool, whether in the lapels of a jacket or the nap of a sweater, seems to yield when the cloudless fall sky like the blue...
...rates will keep dropping on into 1983. Yet other experts, like Richard Zambell, chief economist of the BancOhio National Bank in Columbus, expect that the current rapid growth of the U.S. money supply (an annual rate of 14.8% in the past month) will force the Federal Reserve Board to tighten credit. Argues Zambell: "To prevent a return to double-digit inflation, the Fed will have to push interest rates sharply higher by year...
...Drug Administration, for example, reports that up to 85% of the requests for information come from other businesses. In one case, a report supplied by the agency under the act revealed details of an exclusive filtration process to a rival manufacturer. Congress is now considering a bill to tighten the measure by allowing firms to challenge disclosures more easily...
With bombs and rockets, the Israelis tighten the noose on the P.L.O...