Word: tighteningly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ravaged the rice fields. Planting was late, and yields may be low. The Nixon Administration has announced that exports of grains, including rice, may be curbed to keep domestic prices in line. If the U.S. will not export rice, Southeast Asians will have to look to their own resources, tighten their collective belts, and hope that better weather later this year will revive the "green revolution" that was to solve their chronic food shortage...
...have to make them [Harvard] tighten up their programs as much as possible," he explained. Bynoe concluded that "there will be no problem," and that he is confident Harvard will meet Federal standards within the allotted revision period...
...there is no reason that GSAS student deserve a larger share of the pie than students in other schools. Furthermore, all income from the endowment has been spent on operating costs, and there is no money available for aid to graduate students. * Given that we all must tighten our belts, the Kraus plan is a valiant effort at compromise between the two extremes of opinion about aid to graduate education--those who call for totally merit-based funding and those who advocate a strict set of need criteria. We will not relinquish our merit scholarships; they are essential...
Hall and University Police Sergeant George Hill both believe that if students and employees of the University were to tighten their easy-going "it won't happen to me" attitudes toward crime, it could be drastically reduced...
...tighten your belt, turn up your collar," the veteran hobo tells the kid, "and you can be emperor of the North Pole." The kid, called Cigaret (Keith Carradine), is a blowhard spoiling to be top bum in the territory. He keeps pestering "A No.1" (Lee Marvin) for some tutoring on the fine points of jumping trains and dodging conductors.A No. 1 tosses a few nuggets of road wisdom to his would-be protégé, but saves his energies and talents for his epic battle with the sadistic conductor Shack (Ernest Borgnine), toughest train man on the tracks...