Word: tighteners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only did Harvard's 3-2 none tighten, but Crimson defenders became more aggressive Point guard Calvin Dixon nabbed three steals, and forward Ken Plutnicki grabbed two. As the cagers defensive pressure grew greater, the Minutemen became flustered, throwing the ball away and dribbing wildly...
Reagan is expected to ask to cut the allocation for Pell grants--direct gifts to needy students--from $2.3 billion to $1.4 billion next year, and to tighten eligibility rules so that the maximum qualifying family income is $14,000, rather than the current...
These and other projected cuts continue the pattern begun by the fall cuts, a pattern which has already forced Harvard and most other private institutions to tighten their belts and begin looking around urgently for alternative ways of stretching their dwindling aid resources. The Ivy League Committee on Financial Aid resolved at a meeting this fall to scrutinize the mechanisms by which their admissions offices determine a family's contribution to tuition; they acted as much to help strapped families that might be unable to pay their evaluated fees under the new federal strictures, as to make sure the colleges...
...gradually tighten the envelope, it's harder to control temperatures," Zeckhauser said...
American businessmen had hoped that Reagan would loosen trade restrictions rather than tighten them. Says an executive at a major oil company: "We had been counting on this Administration to give those of us interested in East-West trade some clear principles on which we could build long-range relations with the East. Unfortunately, imposition of these sanctions makes it difficult for us to know precisely whether we should or shouldn't plan on doing business with the East. It seems just as bad now as it did under Carter from our point of view...