Word: tighteners
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...appointed place. Her landlady greets Tony's arrival there with dark suspicion. She senses an aura of incipient scandal hovering about Miss Doubloon. The teacher will, in fact, soon ask her class to read The Scarlet Letter, provoking local bluenoses to declare: "We're gonna tighten our Bible Belt!" On this snowy winter evening, the landlady's wicked mind proves prescient. Upstairs, after some strained academic proprieties, teacher and student fall into the error of each other's arms...
...with the Carroll McEntee & McGinley investment firm in New York City: "What everyone wanted was a nice, controlled, slow recovery. What we're getting is a fast, potentially disorderly recovery." Stanford Economist Michael Boskin is concerned that if excessive money growth continues too long, Volcker will have to tighten abruptly next year and risk aborting the recovery...
Whether or not Bok is stingy with his deputies, few doubt that he is tough on himself come salary time. During his first few years as President, Bok recalls, he asked the Corporation not to raise his salary. "They were tough times for the University, and people had to tighten our belts...
...bulged far beyond Federal Reserve targets in recent weeks, the TIME board attributed that mainly to the shifting of consumer funds among different types of bank accounts. Some members feared that Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker would look at the increase in some money-supply figures and decide to tighten credit again. Said Heller: "If Volcker forgets that it is not just our recovery that is at issue, but the fate of the debt-ridden countries and the European recovery, then we are in trouble...
...being impressionable, but not hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for system beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few, and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...