Word: tighteners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...normal hit-and-run tactics and showed a surprising ability to reinforce their hard-held mountain positions. As the fighting developed, José Napoleón Duarte, President of El Salvador's civilian-military government, said the army's goal was "to encircle [the guerrillas] and then tighten the noose up the mountainside...
...supply, it buys these securities and pays for them by putting new reserves into the accounts that banks maintain with the Fed. With more reserves now showing in their accounts, the banks have more funds to lend out, and interest rates go down. Conversely, when the Fed wants to tighten up money, it sells securities instead, thereby withdrawing reserves and boosting interest rates...
Only one OPEC supplier, Saudi Arabia, which is currently exporting about 7.5 million to 8 million bbl. a day, could cut back production sharply enough to tighten the world market without doing grave damage to its own internal economy. Though Saudi Petroleum Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani has been purposefully vague about his country's plans, reports out of the Persian Guff banking center of Bahrain last week suggested that the desert kingdom may be preparing to trim production at least somewhat this spring...
...council also discussed measures that would tighten up and improve the actual procedure that floundered when Theda Skocpol, then an associate professor, charged in 1980 that the Sociology Department discriminated on the basis of sex in refusing to recommend her for tenure...
...joke currently circulating in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) recounts an apocryphal exchange of cables between Hanoi and Moscow. "Tighten your belts," wires Moscow in response to a Vietnamese plea for increased economic aid. Hanoi's reply: "Please send belts...