Word: tightens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...courses were as popular as last year. Astro 8, long a favorite of the football and hockey teams, dropped more than 120 students in enrollment from last year--a fall that could have something to do with the efforts of course instructors to tighten up requirements...
...even worse than first estimated. President Carter huddled with his economic advisers to plan a Stage Two anti-inflation program and warned in a speech to the steelworkers that it will be "tough" and require "some sacrifice from all." The Federal Reserve made some additional moves to tighten credit, the dollar sank to a new low against the Swiss franc, and prices worried down again on the stock exchanges...
...according to high Egyptian officials, would be to propose detailed and complicated negotiations that ignore the basic issue of Arab sovereignty over the occupied lands. If Sadat balked at participating in such talks, he might look irresponsibly stubborn. Yet such detailed talks could drag on indefinitely, allowing Jerusalem to tighten further its hold on the occupied territories by building or expanding Israeli settlements there...
...initials B.T.U. stand for British thermal unit, the basic measurement of heat in a given amount of energy. But to more and more business people, the letters are coming to mean something else -Better Tighten...
...Solomon fire Griffin, despite the objections of O'Neill, who called the dismissal "one of the worst things I have ever seen in personnel matters." Solomon said the firing was "not related to any allegations of impropriety or wrongdoing" on Griffin's part?only a move to tighten Solomon's control over the agency...