Word: tightener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Unions often don't feel confident getting involved in issues which have to do with business and management. They feel their competence is in struggle, resistance, protection of rights and that these programs threaten that distinctive competence. Furthermore, that attitude might become more firmly entrenched if, as the screws tighten economically, there is more of climate of anger rather than cooperation, a climate of fear, layoffs, and defending what you have. You can't develop projects like this where people are basically defensive...
Although Volcker still retains enormous respect from the business and banking communities, he is beginning to come under some criticism for failing to tighten down on credit and the money supply enough to cool off inflation. Says John F. McGillicuddy, chairman of New York City's Manufacturers Hanover Trust: "Money has not been particularly tight in large money-center banks. It has been expensive, but not all that tight." Selective credit controls, which could perhaps include a boost in the down payment required for a house or auto loan or an increase in the minimum monthly payment...
Bush's economics combine a balanced federal budget and a reduction in federal spending. To tighten American belts he proposes stricter eligibility requirements for federal programs like Food Stamps and grading federal programs on their efficiency. Programs that consistently received low marks, he says, would be revamped or eliminated...
...ingenuity of consumers and lenders has thwarted the Federal Reserve Board's efforts to tighten credit. Money is easily available, in large part because inflation has motivated people to discover new ways to lift borrowing and spending power. Anyone with a decent credit rating can get not just one Master Charge or Visa card but several of every kind-each from a competing bank, and each with credit lines that offer the opportunity to draw cash advances of up to several thousand dollars a month...
...someone up on Niagara [a stretch of the men's downhill run] to tighten a section of the safety net?" He paused to survey his mountain: "The worst thing that could happen now is for it to snow...