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...shift to negotiated rates is an inducement for more firms to get into profitable big-block trading. But the firms normally have to buy these blocks before they can sell them among investors, and this requires considerable capital. In addition, the New York Stock Exchange is planning to tighten its capital requirements; instead of a 20-to-l maximum ratio of liabilities to assets, it will demand...
...children set their own pace through a curriculum rich in art and music. In the post-Sputnik 1960s, though, Dalton's board joined the national clamor for more academic rigor and became ever more eager for a school that could push children into high-prestige colleges. To tighten up, the board of trustees picked a stubborn new headmaster in 1964. As it turns out, Donald Barr may now be too stubborn to survive...
...campaign, Richard Nixon promised to stop inflation while throwing exactly three Americans out of work?the three members of Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers. That partisan hyperbole encouraged the illusion that inflation can be stopped painlessly. It cannot. Whatever else the Government does, it must tighten spending and credit policies in order to wring excess demand out of the economy. Removing the excess inevitably bounces the marginal workers back onto the streets again...
...have to tighten our organization," Bales said last week. "Each wing of the department must define what it needs and not bite off more than it can chew. That way we might be able to get more money from the Dean to hire more full-time faculty...
...tighten our organization," Bales said. "Other programs are taking bites out of Soc Rel's resources, and the present department doesn't seem to be able to stop them. And the department doesn't seem to be able to make a sufficient appeal to the dean for more financial help...