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Word: tightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obvious argument against higher taxes is that business is already beginning to hurt from the labor shortage and from tight credit. Reflecting the auto industry's concern last week were General Motors' announcement that it was putting at least four of its 23 car-assembly plants on three-day or four-day work weeks and Ford's decision to eliminate Saturday overtime at four of its nine assembly plants. Auto sales in April were off almost 5% from last year's record, and the inventory of unsold cars swelled to 1,582,000 compared with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Avoiding Overcure | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

...months ahead. A year ago, the market was sent tumbling from 940 to 841, after the Fed's Bill Martin compared the modern economy with that of the giddy 1920s. Last February, the market climbed to a record 995 and seemed headed toward 1,000, but talk of tight money and tougher taxes again sent it down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Avoiding Overcure | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

...order for Harvard to rate an even chance against the Bulldogs, the team needs a few new sights: a defense that can play four solid periods and stop all- America Mac Bradford, a tight-scoring attack, and a horseshoe for goalie Ron Wilson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale's First-Class Lacrosse Squad Should Beat Harvard Tomorrow | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

...chance came two days later when an Air Force Phantom commanded by Major Paul Gilmore, 33, of Alamogordo, N. Mex., spotted two jets diving in on him. Both were Fishbeds. Gilmore went into a tight diving turn of his own, whipped up behind one of the MIGs, fired off two Sidewinders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Duels in the Sun | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...dangers posed by Presidential candidate Romney become apparent when one measures the magnitude of his certainty against the puniness of his ideas. On state issues his conception of the public interest has somehow invariably led him to support what is likely to be adopted: tight budgets when there was a Republican legislature; more generous spending on education, etc., when the Democrats took over after 1964. He seems more concerned with his legislative batting average than with any specific programs...

Author: By Michael D. Barone, | Title: Public Relations President? | 5/4/1966 | See Source »

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