Word: tighteners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saudis could tighten up world oil supplies at a stroke by simply cutting back on their "excess" production. But the desert kingdom, for now at least, is holding output high and depressing prices, ostensibly to force other OPEC members to support a Saudi plan to link the price of oil to inflation and the value of key world currencies. Such a pricing formula would bring about a moderate but steady long-term rise in petroleum prices...
Faculty members agreed that the Council is not trying to avoid pressure to tighten its rules limiting professors' activities outside Harvard...
...Reagan Administration is trying to cut back drastically on such student loans. Its motto is: "Families and students-not the Federal Government-should be the first source of funds for education expenses." Its goal: to tighten standards of loan eligibility and require larger family contributions to college costs. Under present law, any student can obtain an annual loan of up to $2,500 for four undergraduate years (plus $5,000 for a year of grad school). Parents can borrow an additional $3,000 to help foot college bills that at schools like Harvard, M.I.T. and Stanford next fall will exceed...
...that Mayer was too busy trying to finish his script to spend more time rehearsing his actors, but--hell--I can sympathize with slow, thoughtful writers--this review was scheduled to run yesterday. Though the production is untidy and the play unfinished (Mayer might fill out his protagonist and tighten in particular the first act). Aladdin is an exhilarating reminder that theatrical magic is most wondrous when it is achieved without tricks...
Indeed, a plan to tighten the market back up, was precisely what the six OPEC ministers had gathered in Geneva to discuss. At the meeting was not just Saudi Arabia's Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, whose nation accounts for almost half of the cartel's oil output, but representatives of Kuwait, Nigeria, Algeria, Indonesia and Venezuela as well...