Word: tighteners
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...part, the U.S. announced last month that it will offer to eliminate all licensing requirements for the export of militarily sensitive technology to its Western allies, provided that those countries will tighten their controls governing the export of goods to the Soviet Union. The goal is to allow products to move more freely within the walls of COCOM, even as those walls grow higher and harder for outsiders to breach. That might help American firms reduce what is now a trade deficit in high-tech goods, without doing so at the expense of the country's security...
...business. "If the market hasn't recovered by the time I'm ready to go off into the sunset," he says, "this country is really in trouble. But I suspect that we could see a 10% to 20% drop in demand for our temporary labor as firms start to tighten...
...Tighten up interest deductions. America's most venerable tax shelter is the deduction on home-mortgage interest, a provision that was originally created to help families buy their first home. But perhaps that write-off is too generous. Earlier this month the House Ways and Means Committee adopted a $12.3 million tax-increase package that, among other measures, would finally put a cap on the deduction, limiting it to the first $1 million in mortgage debt. But why not lower the boom even further? As Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski pointed out, "With the people I represent, if you talk...
Thousands of college students who will flock to Cambridge this weekend for the Head of the Charles, the world's largest crew regatta, won't be welcomed guests this year. Following the lead of local police, the Masters of the nine river houses agreed last week to tighten security during the Head of the Charles, which a Harvard crew coach said this week is often marred by "drunken stumblebums...
Critics say that Gilbert's copyright ideas could transform campus-based research by increasing the profit motive for professors. The free exchange of information would be restricted as scholars worry about protecting their discoveries from competitors. And connections between professors and the companies that develop their finds would tighten the ties between universities and industries, which critics fear will threaten academic freedom...