Word: tightenings
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...parenting has created a backlash. Side by side with legitimate avenues of adoption, gray and black markets have sprung up where Third World brokers obtain children for foreign clients under questionable circumstances. From Manila to San Salvador, Bucharest to Brasilia, baby-sale scandals have caused Third World countries to tighten procedures and, in some cases, halt foreign adoption. Other countries are curtailing foreign adoptions to protect their image. Prosperous South Korea, which has sent nearly 120,000 abandoned children overseas since the Korean War, now considers foreign adoption applications only for the handicapped and children of mixed race...
Some experts believe anger is a vastly overrated asset. Says Jerry May of the University of Nevada at Reno: "It leads to inconsistent results. Anger can tighten muscles and increase the risk of injury." May, who chairs the U.S. Olympic Sports Psychology Committee, makes an analogy with sex. "To respond optimally, you must be excited but relaxed. You need that feeling to excel in sports as well." St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bob Tewksbury agrees. "The more I try to have fun and laugh about situations, the better I perform," he says. So far this year, Tewksbury has won nine games...
Looking toward 1992, when the community's borders will become even more permeable, E.C. countries are working to tighten their immigration rules. The focus on immigration is a reaction to a popular belief, often fueled by incendiary press reports, that migrants from abroad are taking jobs and houses away from needy citizens or living handsomely on welfare payments. There is little or no evidence for such claims, but resentment is building in one country after another...
...impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous 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...
...likely that there will be new legislation to tighten up the process, tightening up the rules," the investigator said...