Word: tighteners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sessions announced disciplinary action against six agents, including four supervisors. All have had letters of reprimand placed in their permanent personnel files, and three were suspended for two weeks without pay. Sessions also promised to tighten the bureau's procedures. The victims of the FBI fishing expedition have plans of their own: court action to force the bureau to expunge their names from its files...
...experience in government, any candidatewho starts out by saying `I'm going to raisetaxes' is using the wrong approach," Ford told thepartisan crowd. "He is telling the bureaucracy,`Don't make the hard decisions' to tighten theirbelts...
...routine search turned up traces of pot in the shaving kit of a crew member along with two marijuana pipes. The ship was returned, but only when its owner, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, agreed to send Customs officials a letter supporting the antidrug campaign and promising to tighten security. Zero tolerance strikes again...
...interest rates along with the U.S. The Japanese economy has been growing at a 4% rate over the past six months, and could face ! inflationary pressures. The West Germans, traditionally fearful of even a whiff of inflation, might boost interest rates to guard against price rises. If many countries tighten up at the same time, the dollar will be no less vulnerable than...
...doesn't seem likely that this change will actually attract more concentrators to the department. Instead, it will simply allow those students already planning to major in Economics to pursue an easier course of study. This development directly contradicts the wiser move of three years ago to tighten the requirements for economics, which was often accused of being a gut major...