Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inventory drops in past years have often triggered genuine recessions. To forestall such a possibility, the Federal Reserve Board moved in its role as a monetary balance wheel. In place of its tight money policy of 1966, the Fed all year literally stuffed banks with funds. In its early stages, the massive infusion helped to keep the economic dip trivial. For a few months, interest rates fell, but as the mini-recession melted away, voracious business demand for loans reversed that trend. Corporations borrowed $16 billion through bonds and other debt securities in 1967, almost half again as much...
...devoted so much of his life to drinking up his talent, Dylan Thomas had a remarkably methodical approach to that talent when he was putting it to work. In his tight, clear script he filled notebook after notebook with the history of his poems-when the idea was first set down, how long he sat on it, how he cleaned up the various versions, what he chose to publish and what he left out. Such matters may seem too arcane for all except literary note-pickers, but for those who remember Thomas as a presence and his Collected Poems...
...production by the Boston ballet was remodeled by Virginia Williams. Too often the result is painfully disconnected, sliding over the more intense moments in the score with a frivolous pat-de-chat and dwelling on the lighter moments in a tight pirouette. This was especially true in the dance of the Dew Drop Fairy, one of the two major roles in the ballet. Nevertheless, June Perry by far outshone the rest of the Boston Company in that role and stood up well against the sugar plum fairy of guest performer Violet Verdy, one of this country's best ballerinas. These...
...Harvard hockey team came on the ice as tight as Uncle Scrooge. Cornell's squad of fast, tough Canadians came to play...
...together. He's experimented all year, and he seems to have narrowed it down to about nine possibilities. Mickey Norlander has apparently joined captain Bob Beller, Bob Johnson, and Jeff Grate for the battle for the starting backcourt slots, and the fight for positions up front is just as tight...