Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dark Suits, Tight Jeans...
Economic Slump. Though the junta has brought stability to Greece and taken a certain number of sensible steps, it has little to celebrate on its first an niversary except its own dogged determination to hold onto power. The country is still ruled by decree, and the press remains under tight censorship. Because of the period of political uncertainty that preceded the coup, the Greek economy, which had been growing nearly as fast as Japan's, was headed into a recession even before the colonels seized power. Despite all sorts of pump-priming measures, such as the cancellation...
Most small countries, too, from The Netherlands to Sweden, have nervously watched their economies follow the lead of their best customer. And now the future looks more secure. Swedish economists, for example, are upping their forecast from 3.5% to 4% growth for 1968, despite a tight lid on wage increases and new construction...
...economic buffer group between the British and the Africans engendered animosity from both sides. Africans especially resented Asians for holding the semi-skilled jobs denied them and for growing wealthy by selling to Africans. Moreover, the Africans had little opportunity to meet and understand the Asians, who cloistered in tight communities and shunned intermarriage. Asian contacts with Africans were either on a master-servant or trader-buyer relationship...
Harvard's only singles losses came at the number three and six positions where captain Jose Gonzales and Steve Devereux dropped tight contests...