Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision to raise the salaries, which was made in the face of a large projected budget deficit from 1968-69, was necessary to keep up with increased cost of living for teaching fellows, Dean Ford said. The raises will put an additional burden of $300,000 on the already-tight Faculty of Arts and Science budget, Ford said...
...takes a poke at the Disney menagerie and a swing at President Johnson to boot: "Goofy has so much to say, he changed his place with L.B.J." Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, the album's lead cut, shows what a strong emphasis on clear vocals and tight arrangement can do for a Bob Dylan song. It is certainly the right approach in the further development of West...
...pack of Panthers emerged in Oakland, they have seized pre-eminence in the Black Power movement. They are not only militant but also militaristic. They have guns, determination, discipline and the makings of a nationwide organization. In a dozen black ghettos, Panthers prowl in uniform: black jackets, black berets, tight black trousers. They proclaim their right to bear arms, and they have an affinity for violence. Committed to revolution, devoted to some hard-line Chinese Communist doubletalk, they are gathering notoriety as an American...
Throughout most of a typical performance, the English rock quartet called The Who live up to their own modest billing: "A good, steady-going, down-to-earth pop group." Their beat is tight and jabbing, their guitar backings crisp. Their songs (Happy Jack, I Can See for Miles) aim to divert listeners rather than convert them. Un like current groups performing along the protest-and-prophecy axis, they do not come on like four hoarse men of the Apocalypse. Not at first...
There is general agreement that Britain has made an honest stiff-upper-lip effort to right its economy. The fact remains that the country's balance of payments problem is chronic, despite such stringent measures as devaluation of the pound, a bare-bones national budget, tight wage controls and heavy new taxes...