Word: tightenings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While some panicky traders took the rate hike as a signal that the bull market might be over, other Wall Street watchers shrugged off such fears. "The market overreacted," asserted Edward Yardeni, chief economist for the investment firm C.J. Lawrence. "It's better for the Fed to tighten a little bit now rather than a lot later." Yet worried traders and investors remained shaken. Said Stan Weinstein, a stock market analyst and newsletter publisher in Hollywood, Florida: "The market is going to be awfully nervous next week...
...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...
Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen presented a plan that would raise the fee for a gun dealer's license from $66 to $600 (just last year the fee was only $10). Bentsen says he hopes the increase would prevent 70% of license renewals. The proposal would also tighten regulations for gun dealers who fail to keep proper records of their sales...
With the Brady Bill soon to be law, the next major gun-control battle is likely to be over the rules for licensing gun dealers, which Schumer's bill would tighten. In August, President Clinton called for a review of these lax federal procedures, which currently provide a one-year dealer's license for a $10 fee -- going to $200 under the Brady Bill -- to anyone over 21 who has a fixed address and no criminal record. That entitles the holder to order an unlimited number of guns from wholesalers. Today there are more than 287,000 federally licensed dealers...
After the October showdown, the Kremlin tinkered with the draft to tighten central control over Russia's 89 regions and autonomous republics. Federal laws are given precedence over local legislative acts, and natural resources are subject to joint federal and local control. Anticipating trouble in the hinterlands, which have exploited tensions in Moscow to go their own way, last week Kremlin advisers bluntly told local leaders in the ethnic republics of Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Tuva and Kalmykia to refrain from "irresponsible remarks," hinting that the Kremlin might take measures to bring them into line...