Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russian economic aid for Cuba-which will be needed in massive amounts to prevent destruction of an economy that used to provide one of the hemisphere's highest standards of living. Last week a new boatload of 750 refugees landed in Miami with reports of ever higher prices, tighter rations and lower wages. "Cuba is a madhouse," said one bitter arrival. "Our Russian 'experts' live like landlords, we Cubans live like slaves...
...after carving an estimated 8% hole in the circulation of both papers-Vail got to work. He redesigned his grey editorial page, insisted on shorter editorials, and advised writers to make their point "at the front, to tell the public right off what the Plain Dealer thinks." He demanded tighter copy, claims that "as a result we have 20% more stories in the paper" Says Managing Editor Philip Porter: "The grandmother has been rejuvenated...
...Legislative changes that will give the Federal Government better control of all chemicals that affect man's environment. The call for tighter regulation may frighten chemical companies, but it does not support the more extravagant claims of their outspoken critics-those who believe that control of insects and other pests should be left to the "balance of nature." Nature must be kept out of balance, the report recognizes, if man is to survive in his present numbers...
...which has developed its own smothering bureaucracy. As W. H. Whyte sees the Organization Man, in the office he is engulfed by the team spirit, and in his suburb he is "imprisoned in brotherhood." The indictment, now seven years old, still has much validity, although Whyte admits that a tighter, more competitive economy has made for many sharper, less brotherly elbows. Besides, as automation displaces many straight clerical jobs, there is growing demand for skilled, creative people?and a growing willingness to take them as they are. There is a thriving washroom and cocktail-party folklore about corporate togetherness...
...formal letter to U.S. Aid Chief David Bell, Dantas listed eleven separate steps that his government will take to curb the ruinous inflation that has lowered the value of Brazil's cruzeiro by 78% in the past five years alone. Among them: tighter controls on government spending in order to cut Brazil's treasury deficit, less new currency to be printed, some much-needed overhauling of money-losing state-owned enterprises, a serious attempt at tax reform and improved tax collection, curbs on coffee overproduction, expansion of other exports (iron ore, meat, manufactures), encouragement of private investment from...