Word: tighteners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether or not Bok is stingy with his deputies, few doubt that he is tough on himself come salary time. During his first few years as President, Bok recalls, he asked the Corporation not to raise his salary. "They were tough times for the University, and people had to tighten our belts...
...bulged far beyond Federal Reserve targets in recent weeks, the TIME board attributed that mainly to the shifting of consumer funds among different types of bank accounts. Some members feared that Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker would look at the increase in some money-supply figures and decide to tighten credit again. Said Heller: "If Volcker forgets that it is not just our recovery that is at issue, but the fate of the debt-ridden countries and the European recovery, then we are in trouble...
...being impressionable, but not hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for system beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few, and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
When officials introduced the novel Dartmouth Plan for reorganizing undergraduate life in 1972, they unwittingly fostered an aura of transience around the Hanover, N.H., campus. Today, plans to implement a new student government, consolidate dormitories, and tighten the options students have under the Dartmouth Plan appear to be a reaction against the liberal trend of changes made...
Both Congress and the EPA tried to take advantage of the rising public concern over hazardous wastes. Lawmakers introduced three bills designed to tighten federal control of the poisons and close the loopholes detailed in an alarming new congressional report. The EPA weighed in with its own announcement tightening controls on dioxin and other toxic substances. Compiled during three years by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, the new study warns that 255 million to 275 million tons of chemical poisons are being dumped in the U.S. every year, a ton for every person. It estimates that it will cost...