Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with other tax adjustments, would reduce a horrendous national budget deficit of $29 billion to between $14 billion and $18 billion. Thus, they argued, the surcharge is vital therapy for an economy whose current expansion (see U.S. BUSINESS) threatens, if unchecked, to result in a new spiral of inflation, tight money and rocketing interest rates...
...husband Sid Luft, father of Lorna and Joey and producer of her current tour, "is greater than she ever had before." Judging from the full houses at the Palace, he must be right. Curiously, a disproportionate part of her nightly claque seems to be homosexual. The boys in the tight trousers roll their eyes, tear at their hair and practically levitate from their seats, particularly when Judy sings: If happy little bluebirds...
...billion deficit, coupled with the built-in cost-push inflationary pressures of wage and price increases, will probably bring about a return to excessively high interest rates and tight money conditions from the Federal Reserve Board (Fed)--if Congress does not act quickly on the proposed tax increase. A delay in the hike would permit inflationary forces to gain momentum, and then the Fed would use its monetary device of tightening money--clearly, only a second best choice...
...Consumer uncertainty" is the reason for the slump, says Zenith Radio Corp.'s President Joseph S. Wright. Tight money and the threat of increased income tax are listed by others. Even fear of racial riots is a factor. "People aren't coming out at night to shop," says the owner of Roxy Electric Center, a retailer in Philadelphia. The continuing high cost of color is undoubtedly the biggest reason. As a sort of reverse proof of this, Philco-Ford, an exception to the general trend, offered a color set for $299, saw first-half sales increase 65% over...
...drunken driving was the proximate cause of the riot, becomes a sympathetic figure. Raised in Hanna, Wyo., with no angry sense of color, he came to Watts in 1957 and was quickly told by new classmates that he "talked funny." By August 1965, he was talking wise-and wearing tight trousers and Italian shoes. Officers Lee Minikus and Bob Lewis of the California Highway Patrol, who arrested Frye in the sight of hundreds of irritable Negroes, were well-trained, ambitious cops who bore no overt prejudices against Negroes. One of the rioters that the book focuses on is Cotter Williams...