Word: tighteningly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole is cordoned off from the world by the Andes on one side and the Pacific on the other. Direct action is out, and the U.S. has little indirect leverage to apply. Cut off aid? This year's total, $2,500,000 in loans, would scarcely be missed. Tighten the economic screws? Chile sells little of its copper in the U.S.: 90% of it goes to Japan and Western Europe. In the end, says Sol Linowitz, former U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States, "the U.S. role in this entirely Chilean affair is to keep hands off-entirely...
...after the near foundering of Bernard Cornfeld's Investors Overseas Services Ltd., the mess is sure to heighten European misgivings about all U.S.-controlled financial institutions. More important, the bank's closing will doubtless influence the Swiss Senate, which begins debate this week on a bill to tighten the country's banking regulations. "The scandal can only help make the changes in the law more severe," says R.C. Harpham, First National City Bank's vice president in Switzerland...
Although the Crimson would have appreciated a tougher battle from the Lindenhurst team, it did get some idea of the strengths and weaknesses of its new formation. If it can improve its passing and tighten play in the middle, the 1970 season might prove to be a succession of friendly scrimmages...
...difficulties of making Bill Rogers come across to the public is that it generally sees him at his worst. Put a battery of microphones and television cameras in front of him and this easygoing man will tighten up and become self-conscious." Instead, the Bill Rogers whom Diplomatic Correspondent Herman Nickel usually sees is a pleasant, relaxed man who enjoys talking, and just as important, listening to the newsmen who cover the State Department...
...dictatorship calmly. More than just a few regarded its tough stance with approval. Velasco shut the universities, dissolved Congress and promised a shake-up of the Supreme Court, which has sided with his opponents in the tax-collection disputes. Many Ecuadorians hoped that Velasco's attempts to tighten tax policies and end private speculation in foreign exchange might help loosen the oligarchy's stranglehold on the country's economic life. The military took advantage of the takeover to crack and shave student skulls and to fill the jails with indiscriminate arrests. Among those seized was TIME Correspondent...