Word: tightenings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...someone else's expense. However, despite the legislative long balls hit over the past season, Capitol Hill's 535 members were unable to master one essential stroke: reforming the rules for their own behavior. True, both the House and Senate gave the appearance of movement on laws designed to tighten campaign financing and lobbying regulations. But both bodies moved so late and in such contradictory directions that any reconciliation they are able to fashion next year would still not apply to 1994 elections...
With pressure rising to do something about immigration, Clinton felt he had to get out and lead -- if for no other reason than to head off draconian legislative proposals already in the works. The President put forward measures last July to tighten screening of potential immigrants abroad, speed deportations of phony asylum seekers and add 600 officers to the border patrol. "We will not," he declared, "surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice...
...from the other divisions. For the future, one possibility is a multichannel MTV with a nonmusic news station. Whether that ever reaches TV screens, the world's vidkids are already taking on a shared sensibility about the world that is likely to intensify the generation gap at home and tighten the bonds of the global village in the future...
...require customers to sign a statement that they understand that mutual funds are not insured, thereby lending the force of law to federal guidelines already on the books. Representative Edward Markey, who chairs the finance panel of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is preparing a bill to tighten standards on mutual-fund management and advertising. "Mutual funds are a lot like the Philadelphia Phillies," Markey says. "Great organization, great starting pitching, superb hitting, but they need to address a few shortcomings in order to be perfect...
...public policy" (and claims she was being ironic when she offered it), but other pro-choice advocates insist that a woman's got to do what a woman's got to do. Appalled that anyone would "counsel fraud by saying women should lie," Hyde says he'll fight to tighten the "loose language...