Word: tightenings
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...It’s clear that we have to tighten our security measures,” he said. “The danger is to the majority. It isn’t to the minority...
JAMES GANDOLFINI has made HBO an offer it apparently can refuse. Gandolfini wants his Sopranos salary bumped up from its current rate--a Dickensian $400,000 an episode--to more than $1 million, and to tighten the screws, he sued HBO over an alleged contract violation. Not only would HBO's brass not budge, but they countersued Gandolfini for $100 million and delayed the March 24 start of production of the show's fifth season. HBO lawyer Bert Fields dismissed the actor's attempt to hold a gun to the network's head: "It's really a water pistol...
...have often seemed as if they were made by people with no access to any statistical information about Harvard students’ dining habits. For example, when a House hosts a faculty dinner or enforces its dining restrictions particularly strongly, it is inefficient and counterproductive for nearby Houses to tighten their restrictions in anticipation of the overflow...
After a heated debate of more than 60 messages over the Adams Schmooze e-mail list about crowding in their dining hall, the HoCo has decided to tighten security in order to enforce the restrictions on interhouse diners...
That move came in concert with other clubs whose graduate boards voiced—to widespread undergraduate opposition—their intention to tighten guest policies...