Word: tightenings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for system-beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...Tighten the ending? Develop the character of the evil gym teacher a little more fully? Trim the scene with Hortense and the horse...
...Tale of Two Spins The same President Clinton that earlier this week called on Americans to tighten their belts to balance next year?s budget yesterday announced what he called the biggest government child care program in the nation?s history. Sounds like small government...
Ever cautious, Greenspan warned in October that labor markets were tightening at an "unsustainable" pace. And he has never recanted his belief that the Fed should tighten credit mildly at the first signs of renewed inflation. But for now the Asian crisis has put on the shelf any plans for an interest-rate boost. Maybe the good times can roll a little longer...
...American autos are 90% cleaner than they were three decades ago, but they still account for over a third of urban-area ozone. More than 125 million Americans breathe unhealthy air, and an estimated 15,000 die from it each year--a fact that led the Clinton Administration to tighten clean-air standards last summer...