Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much as a sharp pair of elbows, a knack for getting into the right press pools and a deep reservoir of stamina." Bernstein likens covering Teng's visit to waging a guerrilla war against an army of reporters as well as the Secret Service, which imposed especially tight security...
...collection, to be displayed in its entirety next month in Peking and Shanghai, ranges from garments with thigh-high slits and see-through torsos to dresses and coats with overstuffed "pagoda" shoulders and gold kimono jackets worn over tight silk pants. The designer, who has spent four years plotting the Cardinization of Cathay, makes abundant use of the country's magnificent silks and cashmeres but yields nothing to Maonotony. "Vroom!" he cries. "It's the shock that will be interesting. Why should I copy Mao collars when what they want is dresses from Paris? The Chinese have lost...
...levels, the nation's inflation-heated economy keeps puffing along anyway, and bankers fear that lowering rates right now would make inflation worse. At week's end only Chase Manhattan and some small banks had followed Southwest's lead. Federal Reserve Chairman G. William Miller, whose tight money policy is a key reason that rates have been rising, told a congressional committee that he would not be surprised to see rates remain high for some time...
...were such a good idea. Their purpose was to keep banks flush with mortgage money, which dries up when interest rates rise and people begin emptying out savings accounts to buy high-interest bonds. While the MMCs have prevented that from happening, they have also led banks into a tight profit squeeze, since they have had to pay more for their money as T-bill rates climb...
Sonnenberg was exquisitely conscious of dress as costume. In the '40s and '50s his style of accouterment was a wonder of Manhattan-cane, tight four-button suits, massive cuff links, a bowler hat, and a mustache that almost rivaled Dali's in local celebrity: not the zigzag antennae of the Spaniard but a drooping bunch of Habsburg bristle, which in his last years came to resemble the questing barbels of an old and sagacious carp...