Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more explosives into Khe Sanh than they had into Dienbienphu, reaching a peak on Feb. 23, when 1,300 rounds slammed into the U.S. base. And, as in 1954, the North Vietnamese by night tunneled ever closer to the Marine perimeter, drawing the net of fortified attack positions ever tighter. In terms of firepower and supplies, the Communists were better prepared to strike at Khe Sanh than they ever had been at Dienbienphu. During the early days of the six-week siege, they even had the weather-low clouds, fog and mist-in their favor...
...Short Month. Menacing as the situation appeared around Saigon, the main enemy threat still hung over the northern provinces below the DMZ. The siege around Khe Sanh closed tighter than ever; the outpost is now surrounded by two divisions and a regiment. As the NVA crept closer and closer to the camp's perimeter, one probing patrol of South Vietnamese Rangers hardly got outside the camp when they came under heavy enemy attack and had to retreat. In a way, the entire northern edge of South Viet Nam has come under the same sort of siege. Allied strength...
...made up of millions of individual investors, people who try to describe it often talk as if it has a character or personality of its own-which, in effect, it has. The market knows what it likes and what it doesn't like. It prefers higher taxes to tighter money, because the latter tends to draw funds out of stocks into higher-yielding, fixed-income investments-which is what happened late in 1966. When President Johnson-whose every major pronouncement causes the market to react, and often to overreact-called for a surtax early in 1967, he helped...
...potential is there with British Motor Holdings, but it's going to take a much tighter organization," said Sir Donald after he returned from a tour of his plants and dealerships last week. Soon some unprofitable lines will have to be dropped. And obviously, said Sir Donald, "we have to move toward the General Motors type of integration and more new models." But it will require heavy investment ($360 million, according to industry estimates) and perhaps three years before B.L.M. will be ready with its first new car. Between now and then, the newly merged company...
Somehow the industry must be helped to cut its costs. One obvious step is tighter state driver-licensing-or even a federal license for all U.S. drivers. If 20% of the country's drivers lost their licenses, says the Stanford Research Institute, the accident rate would go down...