Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half an hour the formation held tight for the clicking shutters. Then, in an unobserved second, Walker's Starfighter evidently plowed into the right side of the Valkyrie's delta wing, rolled leftward across its top, damaging the B-70's tall, right vertical stabilizer and snapping off the left one. Over the intercom to ground control crackled Cotton's voice: "Midair, mid-air"-Air Force shorthand for collision. Then, sounding almost laconic, Cotton radioed guidance to the stricken ship's two-man crew: "O.K., it looks like your tail is gone...
...problems are mostly about pay, not politics. "The wage rate," says one RMK-BRJ official, "is the most explosive issue facing this outfit." Surprisingly, the combine wants to pay more but cannot. The wage lid is being held down tight by both the U.S. embassy and the Vietnamese government, not only to frustrate inflation but also to keep the U.S. combine from hiring sorely needed skilled workers away from Vietnamese employers, who pay up to 23% more. Under their U.S. Government cost-plus fixed-fee contracts, RMK-BRJ's wage scales are pegged at 1957 levels; machinists start...
Mustang after Mustang rolled down the Avenue of the Stars and up the gently curving driveway, past a sparkling fountain, to halt beneath the porte-cochere. On hand to help the guests alight were doormen rigged out in Beefeater suits. Inside, phalanxes of blonde, straight-haired teenagers, wearing tight pants and no shoes, padded noiselessly through the vast, thickly carpeted lobby. Standing by the automatic elevators were delicately feminine Japanese starters in long kimonos and obi sashes...
...during the first three months of 1966 #151; tge lowest levels in a dozen years. Simultaneously, the capacity-straining expansion of the U.S. economy has brought an unprecedented demand for borrowing to buy everything from color TV sets to new factories. With the Federal Reserve Board keeping credit tight to restrain the economy, there isn't enough money to go around. One result is the most frenzied scramble for savings accounts in years. Nobody is really certain whey the public is saving less, but economists have lots of theories. Hedge Buying against inflation has sopped up some money...
Whether it will be or not is another question. Although the army was in tight control over Kampala itself, bands of warriors still rampaged through Buganda countryside, ambushing occasional patrols and making communications all but impossible. King Freddy himself had presumably gone underground. The Obote regime hinted at week's end that he had somehow managed to escape-probably under the cover of an afternoon thunderstorm that had interrupted the battle...