Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...times have changed. Tighter discipline around the Square has cut down the damages formerly incurred by local bars and restaurants. The ritual of pulling down the posts has, instead, become standard procedure at all games, win or lose...
...legislature for $100 million more than he had budgeted, he gave them a severe dressing-down and a reminder: "I must reluctantly but sharply call to your attention the fact that the governor has veto power ... to reject items in the appropriation bill." He also demanded and got tighter controls around the statehouse, on everything from inventories to excessively long coffee breaks. The result was a new realization that the governor meant business...
...researchers had improved this process to a point where Holloway was willing to gamble $2,000,000 on a pilot plant in Chicago. The plant worked so well that DMPA says Crane's method is the most advanced technique yet developed. It produces titanium sponge that is packed tighter than any other...
...economy. But even some truckers realize that it is time for the trucking industry to face the fact that its own future lies in a constructive approach to the highway problem. Unless the truckers do, U.S. motorists, who far outnumber the truckers, may well insist on even tighter regulations than now bind the railroads...
Humphrey, the architect of the Administration's tighter-money policy, agreed with the Federal Reserve Board on what to do. For the first time since 1949, the FRB lowered its reserve requirements for member banks, enough to free $1.1 billion. Since every such freed dollar liberated about $5 in additional credit, the move made available about $5.5 billion for loans...