Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economy's growing inflationary fever through a combination of moderately higher taxes and slightly tighter money. With an election in the offing, the President chose not to raise taxes then. With that, the Federal Reserve Board felt compelled to carry the entire burden of dampening inflation. Using tight money as its weapon, the board drove interest awfully high awfully fast. Result: while the economy is still laboring under inflationary pressures, largely because of war-spending, it has simultaneously begun to slow down...
...Amherst will be tough," Barnaby said yesterday. "They play a tight game, and avoid mistakes...
...students, however, have heard of the 16-man committee which meets on the top floor of Holyoke Center every Tuesday afternoon. The members of the Board are a tight-lipped crew who rarely speak of their disciplinary duties for fear of spreading rumors. In fact, the vows of silence have been so religiously observed that no student really knows the law of the land until it is applied to his case...
...tight race the same afternoon for third spot (with Baker and Doug Hardin) on the two-mile squad, Joe Ryan came out of nowhere on the last lap to beat Tim McLoone...
...face of everything, the women can tune up that one eternally winning instrument: charm. When things get tight, as Orin O'Brien explains, "you just smile and give in." No man can cope with that, and what really counts in the end is that the girls can play exceedingly well. "Let the best man in," declares Leinsdorf, echoing the sentiments of most of the profession. "And if the best man is a woman...