Word: tighteningly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...individual group were to press [for more than the pay limit]. This would have to be a test case. But the government are determined to stand absolutely firm. We are backing the pay limit with some legislation, not designed to send people to jail, but, for example, to tighten up the amount of money available [to finance excessive settlements]. What we propose is reserve powers against maverick or rogue employers, not against workers, but we shall go to great lengths to avoid having to invoke them. The Trades Union Congress accepted these powers with great reluctance...
Synod seemed to be moving slowly in the same direction. Attempting to tighten discipline and doctrine on what he saw as a drifting ship, Preus cracked down. His main targets were faculty members of the denomination's major academic arm, Concordia Seminary of St. Louis. These teachers, who in the ensuing debate styled themselves moderates, take a less rigid view of the Bible, accepting modern interpretation that explains the story of Adam and Eve, for instance, less as history than myth. In 1974 Preus won the ouster of the seminary's president, the Rev. John H. Tietjen...
...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...
...report also recommended a number of changes that would tighten internal controls over employees. Among them were proposals to add a second deputy director for administration and to expand the role of the CIA's inspector general to include investigation of reports by employees that the agency was violating...
...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...