Word: tightenings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more than 2 percent growth ?- and suffering painful blows in such key sectors as gold mining. "The increase demanded by the striking workers really isn?t much more than the inflation rate," says TIME South Africa bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. "The government may be forced to compromise and tighten the belt in other areas, such as military expenditure." Absent the moral authority of retired president Nelson Mandela, Mbeki may find it difficult to resolve the mounting tide of labor conflicts and avert major social disruption. But at least the government is leading by example: While it?s offering public sector...
...CALIFORNIA Gun purchases are limited to one a month; lawmakers tighten assault-weapons ban. Laws are among the toughest...
...lawyers. But the front-running G.O.P. presidential candidate could still find himself embroiled in a debate about the sorry state of indigent defense, not just in Texas but in the rest of the U.S. as well. For one thing, the Supreme Court will consider later this year whether to tighten the standard for legal competency, after hearing a case involving bungled defense work on behalf of a convicted Virginia murderer with an appointed lawyer...
Relax. That won't happen. This specter is no more real than the many others that stock and bond traders torture themselves with every now and then, especially when times are good. In fact, inflation is likely to revive only slightly, if at all. The Fed may not tighten at all, and if it does, it will most likely be with a small, one-shot move that's already been discounted. Interest rates a year from now may well be lower than at present...
Though Lowell tried to convince the Faculty to tighten admissions policies, in order to make it easier to recognize and perhaps set a quota on Jewish applicants, they eventually refused. While anti-Semitism has gradually declined since that time, the University's religious dilemmas were far from resolved...