Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assumed to reach 5 per cent of the underemployed each year. The positive results of this program, however--like the last--are almost entirely consumed by in-migration. Moreover, the increased number of those in the Labor class makes crowding in Worker Housing more severe, competition for jobs tighter, and the prospect of leaving the city more attractive for Labor. So, despite a small increase in upward mobility and New Enterprise, he concludes that even a perfect job-training program would be of questionable value to the city...
...Ever since the 1930s, Texas Democrat Wright Patman has been fulminating to bring the Federal Reserve System under tighter Government control. As it is, the Fed is a unique agency that, by design, is not subject to congressional appropriations or Government audit. It pays its own way largely out of interest earned on federal securities. The intention was, and is, to give the Fed a measure of independence from political control...
...shot down in the street by members of a rival Mafia family but survives, hovering near death. To guard against a feared second attack, his family stations private detectives and trusted caporegimes (lieutenants) throughout the hospital where he is recuperating. If anything, Colombo security within Roosevelt Hospital was even tighter, despite the presence of uniformed and plain-clothes New York City policemen...
Ellsberg had worked on the Pentagon study in 1967 and was one of four defense analysts at the elite Rand Corp. research institute granted access to the full report kept there. Although Rand officials insist that their security is tighter than the Pentagon's, no daily check of employee briefcases was made. Ellsberg apparently began taking papers out of Rand beginning late...
...business backlash stings Japan in many ways. The U.S. is negotiating tighter quotas on Japanese steel and has just agreed on a quota for stainless-steel flatware. Many businessmen want the Government to go much further. Last year protectionists raced through the House a bill authorizing quotas on any foreign product that won as much as 15% of a U.S. market. The chief target: Japan. The bill died in a Senate adjournment rush, but the import debate has resurfaced this year in a way that could poison U.S.-Japanese political relations...