Word: tighteningly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Memo to the principal: Do not be alarmed if your teachers walk up stairs with toes pointed in, then down again with toes pointed out. Or if they break into deep knee bends at the blackboard. Or if, standing in the lunchroom, they tighten first their feet, then their lower legs, thighs, buttocks and abdominal muscles...
...will have to ask the House Masters and others in charge to tighten up on security," Robbins continued, "because the paintings are very valuable as they...
...LAST MONTH Harvard has sought to tighten House security precautions in a manner reminiscent of the bureaucratic bungling that supposedly went out of vogue with the coming of Derek Bok. Not only has the University presumed the need for more security without examining the alternative of maintaining the status quo, but the security issue has also developed antagonisms between House Masters and the Administration over who has the responsibility--both planning and financial--for installing security precautions. Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for Administration, blames the Masters for dragging their feet on security, but they unanimously counter that House budgets...
...controls to keep out unwanted dollars. Germany has announced an especially tough set of rules sharply restricting the ability of Germans to borrow money abroad and of foreign countries to invest in Germany. Though such controls are supposed to be temporary, there is a natural tendency to extend and tighten them with each monetary crisis. Former German Economics and Finance...
What were the North Vietnamese up to? They might have been hoping to appease the worried Viet Cong by tying the P.O.W. release to the political-prisoner problem. They might have simply decided to agree to no more efforts to tighten the agreement. In any case, Nixon was furious at the P.O.W. reversal and evidently convinced that Hanoi believed he had little room to maneuver. Nixon summoned Kissinger home, interrupting the talks...