Word: tighteningly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only be reduced by changing the law. Included are such huge programs as Social Security, which will cost $103 billion in fiscal 1979: Medicare, which will spend $29 billion; and Medicaid, with outlays of $12 billion. But now OMB is preparing a set of proposals for Congress that would tighten requirements for entering these programs. Such changes, OMB estimates, would save as much as $1 billion in fiscal 1980. HEW, which has learned that it must absorb one-third of the overall budget cut, cannot possibly accomplish that without changes in basic programs...
With 11:20 left, and Harvard stubbornly poking away in an effort to tighten the score, the chippiness that throughout the contest threatened to boil into something more serious finally did. Some late whacks at Harrison after a goalmouth scramble prompted Jack Colucci and other Engineers to charge into the acrimonious mass of players to the side...
Nonetheless, it seems imperative for the Federal Reserve to tighten up by feeding less money into the banks than people want to borrow from them, an effort in which Miller will need Carter's full support. Though the board runs its own show on interest rates and money supply and is not subject to presidential orders, as a practical matter it must try to coordinate its policy with that of the Administration...
Otto Eckstein of Data Resources, Inc.: "In the end all the President could do was follow the Republican recipe, to tighten up the economy. It has never worked without a recession...
Labor Law Reform. The Administration supported the union-backed bill to tighten rules covering unfair labor practices by management and to speed up legal proceedings when complaints are brought against employers before the National Labor Relations Board. The House passed the bill, but conservatives managed to kill it with a filibuster in the Senate...