Word: tightener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council voted 5-4 to table the motion, introduced by councilor David Sullivan, in an effort to tighten last year's removal ordinance...
...long-pending CIA charter must be enacted to improve U.S. intelligence. The legislation would tighten the agency's control over sensitive information and broaden the range of covert activities that it could conduct without specific presidential approval...
...weakened when industrial users began replacing that metal with plastics and aluminum, and effectively collapsed when the last recession produced a worldwide copper glut. The danger of other cartels remains remote -for now. Even so, individual nations may be moved to reduce exports, and those actions could severely tighten supplies and send prices surging...
While the school was closed, officials worked to tighten security. "When the students tell us it's safe again, we will lift the security--the students have to hold that solution," William Lannon, superintendent of schools, said at the end of classes Monday...
Moscow's primary purpose in invading Afghanistan, most experts agree, was simply to tighten its control of that rebellious country. The tide of Islamic fervor, which had already shaken Iran, was now threatening Afghanistan. Unless it were checked, might it not also spread across the border into the Soviet Central Asian Republics and stir unrest among their substantial Islamic populations? Thus Soviet leaders probably felt that they had only two options: 1) to allow a Moscow-leaning socialist state on their border to dissolve into chaos and possibly pass into the hands of Muslim fanatics or 2) to move forcefully...