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...dozen cities interviewed 50 large and small retailers-and many of their customers-about the rising rebellion against high prices. Smaller retailers have been complaining for months, while big department stores and chain stores continued to do quite well. Now that pattern may be changing as consumers tighten their purse strings...
Harvard Trust will have a tougher credit policy than did the Coop, but no tougher than the Coop planned for itself this fall. Because of the high cost of money the Coop was planning to tighten credit and tack a 1.5 per cent interest charge on overdue bills...
...attempted theft of the Gutenberg Bible in August and the increase of fires in university libraries across the country have caused Widener Library officials to tighten their security measures...
Government security forces have found the terrorists elusive and difficult to stop. Brazil's answer to the new phenomenon has been to tighten the screws: last week the government decreed the death penalty for "revolutionary and subversive warfare." The trouble is that the guerrillas often welcome such responses, since their effect may be to create martyrs and focus attention on causes that might otherwise go unnoticed...
...being impressionable, but not hypercredulous 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 (and there a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...