Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been working steadily at machines and methods designed to make large inventories unnecessary. Better sales projections now enable companies to anticipate their future needs more closely, and speedier deliveries from suppliers with ample plant capacity make it unnecessary to keep big stocks on hand. Automated warehouses make possible much tighter control of inventories; computers are increasingly being put to work measuring the amount of stock and reordering...
Last week red-faced officials announced that some revisions had been made on their mailing lists, and that tighter controls would be observed in the future. Peking had lost its subscriptions, and Taro Leaf and Jayhawk had lost some of their most avid readers...
...science-and-humanities program is to emerge, it must be tighter and more rigorous than the contemporary offering. Even as it separates the teaching of science and of Western culture, it must focus intensively upon each. Harvard's traditional tolerance for diversity must not again be allowed to reduce the program into placing its aegis over every non-departmental course that has the mark of quality. It would be easier to write such a program clearly by dividing into science and humanities than by trying to preserve the present categories...
Even in Giedion's article, tone is not the main problem. Connection has a laudable aim, but it needs more informative writing and much tighter editing...
...favored loose money and low interest rates on loans to stimulate the domestic economy, while four have argued for slightly higher short-term lending rates as a way to stop U.S. gold from flowing into the hands of foreign borrowers who find the U.S. a cheap money market. The tighter majority, led by Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr., prevailed last July, when the Fed hiked its lending rate to member banks from...