Word: tightenings
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...bill includes a provision that would raise the age at which tenured faculty can be forced to retire from 65 to 70. The proposed legislation, which congressional aides predict will pass both houses of Congress within a month, may well tighten the already glutted market for jobs in academia even further...
Graduate students in the Sociology department are organizing a task force to challenge the department faculty's decision to tighten deadlines for oral examinations and thesis prospectuses...
...ground. Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, issued an order of the day: "Tighten your grips on your guns. For the next 48 hours anything can happen." Moscow, which backs Arafat and has been at odds with Sadat since he expelled Soviet advisers from Egypt, accused him of a flirtation that could lead to Middle East war once more...
...State Department official tried to reassure an Israeli diplomat that "if the statement puts pressure on anyone, it puts pressure on both sides." Nonetheless, there was little doubt that the real intent of the announcement was to tighten the screws another turn or two on Israeli Premier Menachem Begin. Following a series of U.S. protests against new Israeli settlements in the West Bank and other occupied territories, the statement appeared to presage an ultimate confrontation between Jerusalem and Washington. The Administration is perplexed by seeming discrepancies between Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon's disclosures about secret new settlements...
...Vineyard. The Wamponoag Indian tribe has inhabited Gay Head since at least 2270 B.B. They once owned the town's land; today they earn their keep primarily by running the stands stacked with cheap turquoise rings, moccasins, and drums. When cold weather discourages crowds of tourists, the Indians tighten their belts, earning money from shellfishing or from a few municipal jobs. Although the Wamponoag Indians still dominate Gay Head's population, they now shape their town with a small, but far wealthier, white community. The 200-person town is now known for more than its impressive cliffs because the Wamponoag...