Word: tightens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tighten the secrecy of medical records, Congress is now considering a number of bills, including one introduced by Republican Senator Jacob Javits of New York, another by Democratic Representative Richardson Preyer of North Carolina, and a third on behalf of the White House. All three measures cover mainly institutional records, not those kept by doctors in their private offices. Also, they would continue to allow release of information for such worthy scientific purposes as inquiries into the effectiveness of a particular drug on the course of a disease. But they would prohibit the kind of blanket, open-ended authorizations that...
...Soviet-equipped 80,000-man army. But the rebellion has spread to 15 of the country's 28 provinces, and while guerrilla activity is most intense in the remote areas bordering on Iran in the west and Pakistan in the east, the regime has been forced to tighten security everywhere. Foreign diplomats in Kabul reckon that more than 12,000 political prisoners have been jailed. Major intersections in the capital, where an 11 p.m. curfew is in effect, are patrolled by soldiers, and the country's few highways are under heavy guard; eight police checkpoints...
Carter has asked for legislation to tighten the loopholes that permit such abuses, but there is a common belief, fanned by some of the President's own charges, that Congress is a patsy for petroleum interests. The impression is strengthened by Congress's own inaction on energy policy. Sometimes, however, the foot dragging is actually helpful. Last week, for instance, a House committee sensibly refused to give Carter stand-by authority to order gas-station closings if supplies get too tight. The closings might well provoke motorists to start topping off their tanks, resulting in long lines at the pump...
...which determines the pace of money growth and interest rates. The 17 members, seated around a 30-ft. mahogany table in the room where some of the most secret plans of World War II were drawn up, faced an exquisitely difficult choice. They had to decide whether to further tighten credit and raise interest rates, thus taking the risk of tipping the nation into recession, or to maintain rates at their present levels, which might worsen inflation. Their deliberations will be kept secret for a month, but early signs are that the committee, which has been closely divided...
...policymaker: "We cannot go on expecting the wage and price guidelines to hold." Since President Carter has ruled out mandatory controls, the only other policy choice, in the view of White House advisers, is to raise interest rates. Leaks to the press and other pressures on Miller to tighten money became so obvious before the Open Market Committee meeting that Carter sent notes to Blumenthal and Schultze telling them to stop it. The President did not necessarily oppose the Fed's raising interest rates, but he did not want the voters to blame him for it. Said a White House...