Word: tightenings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With the wind and rain, scores are going to skyrocket," Kincaid said. "Being from the southwest, I had trouble adjusting to the weather out here. My muscles tighten up in the cold rain...
Cambridge is one step closer to obtaining legal authority to tighten up rent control regulations, thanks to a measure passed by a state legislative commitee last week...
...plants. These moves were accompanied by a shower of anti-Lithuanian decrees from Moscow. The most ominous was a directive from Gorbachev ordering Lithuanians to turn in their firearms. He also instructed the KGB to step up security on the borders and asked the Foreign and Interior Ministries to tighten control over foreigners in the republic...
Given these opportunities, as well as the Pentagon's inescapable budget pressures, it is urgent that Washington devise a coherent plan to have an effective but smaller military by the end if not the middle of the decade. The Pentagon's typical gamesmanship -- pretending to tighten its belt a little each year without rethinking basic issues -- could lead to the worst outcome: a hodgepodge of cuts that will come anyway, guided not by foresight and leadership but by some of the worst instincts in politics...
Arab capitals, aware of the implications of the new statistics, are warning of higher tension and instability in the Middle East. Some of them hint at Soviet-American collusion; most assume that Israeli hard-liners will count on immigrants to help tighten their grip on the occupied territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. President Saddam Hussein of Iraq called the arrivals "a catastrophe befalling the Arab world." The government-run Egyptian daily al-Ahram was equally impassioned. "This is a blatant invasion," one of the paper's columnists said, blaming "American and Soviet strategies" that...