Word: tightenings
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...ingenuity of consumers and lenders has thwarted the Federal Reserve Board's efforts to tighten credit. Money is easily available, in large part because inflation has motivated people to discover new ways to lift borrowing and spending power. Anyone with a decent credit rating can get not just one Master Charge or Visa card but several of every kind-each from a competing bank, and each with credit lines that offer the opportunity to draw cash advances of up to several thousand dollars a month...
...someone up on Niagara [a stretch of the men's downhill run] to tighten a section of the safety net?" He paused to survey his mountain: "The worst thing that could happen now is for it to snow...
...council voted 5-4 to table the motion, introduced by councilor David Sullivan, in an effort to tighten last year's removal ordinance...
...long-pending CIA charter must be enacted to improve U.S. intelligence. The legislation would tighten the agency's control over sensitive information and broaden the range of covert activities that it could conduct without specific presidential approval...
...weakened when industrial users began replacing that metal with plastics and aluminum, and effectively collapsed when the last recession produced a worldwide copper glut. The danger of other cartels remains remote -for now. Even so, individual nations may be moved to reduce exports, and those actions could severely tighten supplies and send prices surging...