Word: tighteners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rodino has been fighting the decontrol bill all along, and pushing his own bill to tighten restrictions. For Rodino, as for most law enforcement officials, the crucial issue is restricting handguns--as opposed to rifles and shotguns--as well as ending the insanity known as machine gun rental, available since...
After four incidents of peer sexual harassment at the Divinity School this month, students and administrators are working this week to tighten security and increase student alertness...
When the subject of what to do with the Sandinistas is discussed, Time magazine reports, "the normally amiable and relaxed President sits up straight in his chair; his eyes flash, his lips tighten and his hands ball up into fists." Like Wilson, Reagan views the presence of such a regime as a personal affront and has taken it upon himself to see it removed...
...spreading Communism through the hemisphere. When the question of what to do about the Sandinistas comes up at National Security Council meetings, Reagan assumes what one aide calls his "Churchillian mode." The normally amiable and relaxed President sits up straight in his chair; his eyes flash, his lips tighten, and his hands ball up into fists. Throughout Reagan's political career, stopping Communism--along with reducing the size of Government and cutting taxes--has been an idee fixe. Nicaragua, in Reagan's view, is the place and now is the time to take a stand. So committed...
...students here, and obviously we have a lot to lose in Federal education cutbacks. But to ask that education programs be spared is to ask, indirectly, that other programs suffer more. All America will have to expect less from the Government in coming years; we students ought to tighten our belts with the rest...