Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tighter Space. "We are a rich nation," Johnson emphasized, "and can afford to make progress at home while meeting obligations abroad." Nonetheless, he conceded, "the rate of advance in the new programs has been held below what might have been." While non-military spending will total $52.3 billion, an increase of $2.5 billion, the war on poverty was allotted only $1.6 billion instead of the hoped-for $2.5 billion. Federal spending outside the war, Great Society programs, and interest on the national debt will be trimmed by $2.3 billion. One notable victim is the space program, which will receive...
...except the U.S. and Russia. The black gold that foreign companies pump from beneath the muddy floor of Lake Maracaibo enriches the Venezuelan government by $1.3 billion yearly, or about $1 per bbl. And whenever the treasury wants more, it simply squeezes the 25 foreign oil companies a little tighter-which is what it is doing right...
...number two match, Gonzalez lost an even tighter match to Penn captain Howard Coonley. Coonley, finding himself being out-stroked in the first two games, varied the pace to win the next two. In the final game, Gonzales utilized an effective dropshot to recover from a four-point deficit, but Coonley's experience and gamesmanship prevailed...
...Africa's U.S. Open Champion Gary Player drew heavy galleries of whites and nonwhites. Police tried to chase off the nonwhites but got nowhere. So, as the second round opened the next day, the government hauled out its trusty racial iron and took a hefty swing. Police enforced tighter separation of the crowds, posted two agents with Sewgolum to keep the whites at a safe distance, and summarily banned Sewgolum from any further tournaments after the South African P.G.A., including the Natal Open, which he won last year. If Player was bothered by such unsportsmanlike treatment...
...event demand heats up too much, Lyndon Johnson's economists will recommend one or more restrictive moves, probably in this order: cutbacks in domestic spending, still-tighter money, higher withholding rates for income taxes (up from 14% to 20%), and lastly, temporary tax increases. The step that businessmen fear most?general , and deflationary controls on prices, wages, profits, materials, mortgage and installment credit?would be taken only as a desperate final resort. Johnson almost surely will not turn to controls for the key reason that defense spending is unlikely to amount to more than 8.5% of the G.N.P. as against...