Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Houk bravely insisted: "We should finish in the first division." Oddsmakers figured otherwise: they picked the Yankees to finish no better than sixth and picked the Orioles as strong favorites (at 2-1) to win the American League flag again. The National League race, as usual, figured to be tighter. A lot of smart money was on the Pittsburgh Pirates (at 12-5), but the San Francisco Giants were a solid second choice at 3-1 -with $100,000 Pitcher Juan Marichal already flashing midseason form (five hits, two runs in ten innings despite his four-week holdout), and Willie...
...Tighter Laws. Last week, by overwhelming votes of 98 to 1 in the house and 33 to 0 in the senate, the West Virginia legislature passed Governor Smith's bill. The new statute gives absolute authority over strip mining to the director of natural resources, taking it away from the state mines department, which has a reputation for favoring strippers. The law prohibits stripping within 100 feet of any public road, stream, park, school or building. Strippers, when they apply for a mining permit, must now submit a detailed advance plan of how they intend to reclaim the mined...
...which strip miners operate have statutes requiring miners to reclaim their land; but the eight-Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Virginia-produce 80% of all strip-mined coal. And as the realization spreads of how badly strip mining destroys nature, the laws are getting tighter. Pennsylvania, for example, amended its existing law in 1963 to require that miners put everything back into the hole except the coal; Kentucky passed a similar measure last year...
...Tighter Party Control...
...good illustration of this dilution of specialization in favor of tighter Party control is found in the staffing of Peking's diplomatic posts. Up to the early stages of the Great Leap the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had developed a corps of foreign service officers with wide experience in international relations, and ambassadorial assignments abroad had been made almost exclusively from within the career service. But then in the period from 1960 to 1965 nearly half of the 42 ambassadorial appointments to non-Communist countries were given to CCP operatives with no experience in international affairs...