Word: tightenings
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Controllers should be allowed to adjust safety standards that were set 45 years ago. They could, for example, tighten the distance between jets from the current five miles to, say, 4.5 miles or even less. Controllers say they could make the system much more efficient--and still keep safety first...
...sobering dose of reality for what had up to that point been a pleasant but purely imaginary endeavor. As I sat slumped in the car on the way home, feeling heretofore unknown muscles in my ass (pivotal for skating, largely unused while sitting at a desk) tighten and cramp, there was no doubt that it was going to be a long haul...
...impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system being, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, 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...
...second term, Clinton's EPA moved to tighten clean-air rules, putting particularly tough new restrictions on trucks and coal-burning power plants, but the proposals are still tied up in lawsuits. Clinton has also not achieved as much as he wanted in the fight against global warming. Though Gore led the U.S. delegation that helped forge the Kyoto climate-change treaty in 1997, it was immediately criticized by opponents in the U.S. Senate, where it still needs to be ratified. Perhaps the recent negotiations to fill in the details of the treaty will change the Senate's negative attitude...
...controversy generated by the discovery of the genetically modified corn put both the Japanese and American governments under enormous market pressure to tighten controls on GM organisms. Japan needs 16 million tons of corn a year to satisfy demand, and imports 95 percent of its supply from the United States. With the emergence of genetically modified genes in American grain, Japanese companies were extremely reluctant to buy American corn. In protest of shoddy export controls, Japanese companies boycotted American corn until the American government promised more effective inspection techniques...