Word: tightens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concentrations could be kept small by making enrollment and degree requirements stiffer, Behrman said. Some elite concentrations already have made efforts to tighten up their requirements, he added...
...believes that both he and Lily are possessed. "We are soul mates. I mean the characters we do literally take possession of us. You're O.K. as long as you keep an eye on what's happening, as long as you don't get scared and tighten up. Because then you lose control over yourself and the character takes over completely. I've never seen it happen to any other entertainers but Lily and me. You can see the physical change take place when she's working. It is eerie...
Europe's workers this winter are in their angriest, most aggressive mood since the contentious 1930s. After three postwar decades during which they became cozily accustomed to rising wages and proliferating fringe benefits, the unions are now being asked to tighten their belts to hold down inflation. All over Western Europe, workers are striking, protesting and grabbing authority away from management...
Mondale found the Germans and the French reluctant to modify their deals for the sale of nuclear reprocessing plants to Brazil and Pakistan respectively. But they told Mondale they were willing to tighten international safeguards to prevent the conversion of spent reactor fuel into atomic weapons-a high Carter priority. Mondale also got agreement for further high-level international negotiations to limit the export of nuclear facilities...
...tough approach would risk retaliation from other countries, who could make life difficult for U.S. ships in foreign ports by jacking up tugboat fees or other nuisance gestures. Says a Washington maritime lawyer: "The risk of retaliation is not a trivial one. It is always a dangerous risk to tighten procedures." But increasingly, Washington will have to balance that risk against the rising public concern in the U.S. about the environmental hazard posed by the ever more numerous tankers plying U.S. waters...