Word: tighteners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easy to understand the pressures on Harvard to go back on various policies--shrinking federal aid, a tight economy, and faculty salaries that threaten to become uncompetitive are all forcing the University to tighten its belt. It is thus especially critical that alumni--the only people whom Harvard inevitably listens to, and indeed, fears--show the University that certain policies must be beyond compromise. If the Fogg debacle proved anything, it is the very power alumni can wield...
Companies tighten up on an old form of waste
...last week told a gathering of business executives that Castro was "agonizing" over whether to stay in the Soviet orbit, which would seem to be a substantial overstatement. But Haig and his aides believe that the way to detach Castro from the Soviets, if there is one, is to tighten the American pressure that has isolated Cuba from the rest of the hemisphere. "Whenever we have sat down with Cuba in the past, it has cost us dearly," one ranking U.S. official argues. "The minute we agree to one small concession, they turn around and tell the world...
...this year. Says Don Goodrich, who hopes to sell his Harvester dealership in Gilmore City, Iowa: "You'll see a lot more dealers trying to get out unless there's a turn-around soon." Adds Lloyd Long, a John Deere dealer in Oklahoma: "Reagan tells us to tighten our belts, but this is turning into a tourniquet...
...they are raising ticket prices from an average of $10.50 to as much as $15. In still another effort to add to its considerable success, the N.F.L. is now lobbying in Congress for exemption from the antitrust laws. This would open the way to further expansion. It would also tighten the league's hold over such maverick owners as Al Davis, who is suing the N.F.L. for blocking his plan to move the Raiders from Oakland to Los Angeles...