Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...league was much better this year and the race was much tighter. Every team could have won. Dundley upset Eliot: Winthrop never lost a game by more than four points. Kirkland ended up on top because of their organization and Dave Taft...
...Force 1st Lieut. James A. Cullen of Winchester, Mass., could hardly have been in a tighter spot. Hit by Viet Minh gunners during a bombing run over Quangkhe during last week's raids, Cullen bailed out of his F-100 Super Sabre into the Gulf of Tonkin-and practically into the midst of a flotilla of armed Communist junks and torpedo boats. Muzzles flashing, the Red vessels sped toward Cullen as he desperately sought cover behind his life raft. Said he: "I thought I was finished...
...Switzerland. Your correspondent is unobjective. Reduction of foreign labor, totaling at present 1,000,000 in a population of 5.9 million, is not xenophobia but one of three measures to combat rampant inflation (14% in the past five years v. 5% in the U.S.). The other two: tighter credit and a reduction in public and industrial construction, to prevent continued economic overexpansion. The last OECD report called these three measures justified, even insufficient...
When the economy began moving too fast some 14 months ago, the Bank of Japan, which exerts a stronger control over money and banking than that held by the U.S. Federal Reserve System, adopted a tight money policy. Tighter money slowed down internal consumption, discouraged industry from expanding and made businessmen push exports to counter the cutback at home. The result is that Japan has rebounded from a trade deficit in 1963 to what is expected to be a substantial surplus in the first quarter of this year. Because business confidence has suffered in the process, the Bank of Japan...
...lifted a ban against Communist speakers on campus, then retreated and barred two who had been cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions put by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The same pair addressed 300 students at the University of Michigan without incident. "The tighter you put the lid on," says John Gustad, provost of New College, Fla., "the bigger the explosion is likely...