Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tighter disclosure law went into effect on April 7. He collected some $6,000,000, often in cash, in just the two days before the deadline, from men who did not want to reveal their identities. He did so even after Nixon had praised the new law as "giving the American public full access to the facts of political financing" and thus "building public confidence in the integrity of the electoral process...
...still defends a policy of casual controls and promises that price relief is just around the corner. He expects food prices to peak in early summer and ease downward for the rest of the year. But another Nixon adviser, Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, is urging tighter controls. Nixon may be tempted to impose a freeze before Congress forces...
...block-busters." Financial arrangements vary. In some Houses the House Committee funds the society's initial investment; in others, the money may come from the Master's funds--but the House that will tolerate continued deficits is a rarity, and film societies without House backing are under even tighter constraint. GSD Films' arrangement with the School of Design requires it to be in the black at the end of each month, or shut down. At the end of the year, any profits must go into the school's scholarship fund...
...caused by the expanded enrollment in the 1960s, makes it easier for intruders to masquerade as students. In addition, says Security Director Paul Doebel of the University of Illinois: "We encounter a great deal of naiveté about security among students, as well as hostility at any mention of tighter controls." At Northern Illinois University, a security officer was recently scheduled to discuss the crime problem at a dorm-but no one bothered to come to hear him. Explains Harvard Vice President Stephen Hall: "Students could cut crime by 90% if they would lock their doors and be more suspicious...
...Tighter security does seem to be the best solution. At U.C.L.A., the campus security force was beefed up from 36 to 48 men over the last year, and reported crime dropped by 30%. At Berkeley, crime plummeted after officials improved campus lighting, hired additional police and sent students a memorandum warning: "Don't hitchhike ... Female students are encouraged to carry a shrill whistle ... Don't go alone at night-traveling in twos is better, in a group best." Thus the best way to avoid becoming a campus crime victim is to adopt strategies that have become...