Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...control devices must reduce the emission of hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide, major sources of automotive pollution, by 60% and 50% respectively. But even this improvement will be more than counterbalanced as the number of U.S. cars increases each year. Faced with that fact, Gardner last week proposed even tighter standards...
...every attempted reform has failed. In 1962, a commission appointed by President Kennedy recommended a series of modest reforms for presidential campaigns-tax relief for small donors, repeal of limitations on individual donations and interstate committee expenditures, tighter reporting and a registry of election finance to help enforce the rules. Congress ignored the whole thing. So did Lyndon Johnson, until 1966, when Louisiana Senator Russell Long somehow bulled through a new law allowing federal tax payers to check a box on their returns authorizing a $1 gift for presidential candidates-the proceeds (a possible $60 million the first year...
With less money available to borrow, all sections of the economy will feel the pinch. But as the Fed intended, it will be modest. Even the stock and bond markets, normally the first to react strongly to tighter money, took the news without a noticeable tremor because both had been expecting...
...home before paying an additional 14.3% to cover the pound's loss; at week's end 70 airlines agreed to increase by some 17% the price of airline tickets bought with pounds. A Scottish football team, traveling in Naples on a tight budget that became even tighter with the advent of the minipound, also had to ante up the difference. Miss Peru, winner of the Miss World contest two weeks ago in London, found her ?2,500 prize suddenly 14.3% poorer. And several cities in Britain reported that the number of inquiries about emigration was suddenly running double...
...says Miss Susan M. Haskins, Associate University Librarian for Cataloguing, "it's just that we need tighter control over what I call the 'high voltage' material...