Word: tightening
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...improper activities, the commission declared, "should be criticized and not permitted to happen again-both in the light of the limits imposed on the agency by law and as a matter of public policy." To that end, the commission made 30 recommendations designed primarily to tighten presidential and congressional control over future CIA operations...
...tighten security, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt banned nonofficial visitors from government headquarters in Bonn last week and ordered that an armored car guard the chancellery building day and night. The concrete and steel Stuttgart courthouse is encircled by concentric chain link, barbed-wire and wooden fences. A steel net has been strung across the roof to keep off explosives and prevent helicopter rescue attempts. Hidden cameras monitor every inch of the floodlit complex, and more than 500 policemen share the guard duty. Roadblocks manned by submachine-gun-carrying police seal off the entrances to unauthorized visitors...
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who has repeatedly excoriated other nations for similar interventions, explained the annexation by simply observing that the people of Sikkim want it that way. Some observers argue, however, that New Delhi simply wanted to tighten its grip on an area it feels crucial to its defense. Sikkim is a buffer between India and Chinese-controlled Tibet...
...Faculty Council earlier this spring placed on the docket for the May Faculty meeting a series of proposed changes in undergraduate honors requirements that would generally tighten up standards that some faculty members feel have grown too lax lately...
Neither team was able to score in the first overtime, but the Elis took a short-lived lead when they scored midway through the second. Yale's grip on victory appeared to tighten when a Crimson penalty with 55 seconds remaining gave the Elis the ball and left Harvard short-handed...