Word: tightenings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impressionable, but not being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for beating the system, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the later, 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...
...next year, Foley did nothing to determine if Russ had followed through on his pledge, made in December 1989, to tighten the bank's check- writing policies. The scandal reached the front pages in September 1991, when the General Accounting Office reported that lawmakers had overdrawn their accounts 8,331 times between July 1989 and June 1990. Foley still did not punish Russ. As he explained in an interview last week, "I had no authority to fire Russ. I could have asked him to resign, I suppose, but I couldn't dismiss him. And what I was seeking...
...million budget deficit will force the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to tighten its belt, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles wrote in a recent letter to FAS members...
...election year. A military intervention in a country that poses no threat to international peace and security would be all but impossible to justify; last week the State Department quickly denied that any military option was being considered at present. The likeliest option was a three-pronged approach: tighten up refugee controls; target individuals connected with the coup by freezing their American bank accounts; and ease the toll on Haitians by loosening the embargo on plants that assemble goods for U.S. companies, restoring as many as 40,000 jobs...
...being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for beating the system, 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...