Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discount fee of only 41% to borrow money but charge far higher rates to their customers. So far, the Fed has held back from lifting its discount rate, partly because it does not want to jeopardize the economy by giving the slightest impression that it is adopting a tighter policy...
...hilt can so readily employ a double standard when student editors do something which they do not like. The University of California system ran The Daily California at Berkeley off campus for a single editorial it published in 1970; the University of Texas regents went after, and got tighter control over The Daily Texan in 1971 after the paper uncovered $500,000 in funds misappropriate by the regents: last year, Boston College banned The B.C. Heights from its campus on general principle, but also because the paper let out a fact the administration had tried to keep secret--that...
...introductory speech: an outline of our tasks, purposes, and duties. It was the most I'd ever seen Don talk, he even told a couple of jokes; and I began to wonder whether it had been prepared. It had been apparent from the beginning that security was to be tighter than usual, but Don, known for secure concerts, had covered all the angles. We would be divided nto groups before the concerts. The backstage area would be covered, at all access points; the dressing rooms themselves, though locked, would also be guarded. A group would watch the ticket takers...
Alternatively, the European governments could clamp tighter controls on currency exchanges and capital movements, mostly in an attempt to keep out dollars, which Common Market countries hold far in excess of their needs. That step is favored by France's Giscard, a vehement opponent of currency flotations. This might quiet the markets, but it would constitute a partial reversal of the post-World War II trend toward freer movement of goods and money across national borders. Some combination of floats and controls is also possible...
When Van sang "Astral Weeks" last Friday at the Orpheum, it wasn't the same. It was tighter, more solid, like the music he's made since the album Astral Weeks. At one point during his performance of "Cypress Avenue," the strongest song on that album and the one closest to his work on Blowin' Your Mind, he said, "I don't wanna tell you about all of that Belfast pain and suffering." With that statement he summed up his music after Moondance: a more joyous, tighter, harder rock music, like his early music, but much more secure lyrically. There...