Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coming fiscal year the percentage increase is near zero-hence the net loss after inflation. Some institutions hope to keep their key programs coasting on tighter budgets. Others will simply be shut down...
...final quarter of 1969. Continued doldrums (see BUSINESS) would mean lower tax yields. That concern brought Kennedy into agreement with Economist Arthur Burns, who, on Feb. 1, will leave his post as Counsellor to the President to become chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Burns had been arguing for tighter restrictions on Government spending on the grounds that the Reserve Board's limitations on the money supply, severe though they have been, could not alone cope with inflation...
Christmas is, of course, the big season for shopping. But this Christmas inflation and the fear of recession made the Great American Spender tighter than expected, leaving many products still on the shelf-conspicuously unconsumed...