Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Management has hardened because of rising costs and declining profits, and is inclined to suffer strikes, especially those that help to clear away excess inventories. Union attitudes have stiffened both because the labor market is tight and because of increased militancy on the part of the rank and file. Most union members are in a better position this year to sit out a strike. A Detroit striker who is drawing benefits from the United Auto Workers and has some money in his bank account was inclined to welcome the chance to watch the World Series on television and to take...
This zone can't stop a short, accurate passer as only tight man-to-man coverage might, but it avoids the danger of an outstanding receiver's faking and breaking free for a touchdown. And while Harvard will give up more yardage through the air than on the ground, the enemy faces greater risks along this route: interception, incompletion, or loss...
...that consumer prices rose by 0.3% in August, reversing the normal trend for that month. Wholesale prices also rose by 0.3%. If Congress fails to pass a tax rise, the independent Federal Reserve Board may well restrict credit-as it did in similar circumstances last year-and perhaps make tight money an even bigger election-year issue than higher taxes. Fast-rising prices do not make for friendly voters either. As obnoxious as these alternatives may be in Washington, they have yet to exert any lubricating effect on the stalemate between Lyndon Johnson and the House of Representatives...
...permissive. "This is a free country," explains FAA Inspector Jim Donathan. "Guys can break their necks if they want to. Our job is to be sure they don't kill somebody on the ground." Still, accidents happen, particularly in the hairy sport of pylon racing. While cutting a tight turn around a 55-ft.-high pylon, a plane may pull up to six G.s even as it is being subjected to severe turbulence from the prop wash of competitors. The results can be catastrophic. While testing his homemade racer at Fort Worth last May, Georgia's Nick Jones...
...Federation's spokesman, George W. Ross, a teaching fellow in Government and Social Studies, feels the group has two things going for it: teaching fellows' anger at not being taken seriously by the Administration, and the increasingly tight squeeze of trying to survive in Cambridge on a salary that rarely exceeds $2400 a year...