Word: tighter
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...indicating that the public widely regards him as a weak leader. He acted unusually quickly to obtain the resignation of Adviser Peter Bourne when he became an embarrassment to the White House. He dramatically asserted presidential control over the scandal-tinged General Services Administration. And he has imposed a tighter rein on Cabinet officials...
...Canada and Britain, the lid is tighter than...
...main elements are now familiar: the White House is to veto inflationary spending bills, reduce the cost to business of Government regulation and aim to start an era of tighter budgets, declining deficits and moderate, less inflationary economic growth. Meanwhile, the Government will plead with business and labor to hold price and wage increases below the average of the past two years. All this fits Miller's ideas so well that there is speculation that he and Carter have struck a bargain under which the Administration practices tax-and-spending restraint and Miller refrains from a stern hold-down...
Wyatt hopes a system that integrates all the marketing operations will encourage more Harvard affiliated personnel to live in Cambridge, which might improve faculty-student relations. "If everybody lives in Cambridge, then faculty can have students over to their houses, and we will be able to build a tighter community." Wyatt's words echo the thoughts of former president Nathan M. Pusey '28, who wrote in the late '50s, as Harvard was beginning its expansionist era and purchasing a great deal of property in Cambridge and Boston, that he believed that Harvard's future was closely tied to the concept...
Dick Clark, the Iowa Democrat who had introduced the measure in 1976. They asked his advice on a plan by which the U.S. could channel aid to one of the anti-Neto guerrilla factions in Angola?presumably to pressure the Luanda government to put a tighter rein on both its Cuban and Katangese guests. After some thought, Clark concluded that the scheme would violate the law and that he would oppose...