Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some economists fear that a tighter job market will push up wages and launch a new inflationary spiral. In November 1979, the last time unemployment was as low as 5.9%, inflation was roaring ahead at a seemingly unstoppable 12% annual rate. The current consensus, however, is that the economy still has enough slack to keep that from happening. One reason: in addition to the 7.1 million people the Labor Department officially lists as "unemployed," an additional 1 million, classified as "discouraged," have given up looking for jobs but are still part of the country's available labor pool...
...Cosbyana are little more than stand-up material set down on paper, without the flair that Cosby brings to them in live performance. (His unbilled collaborator on both books was Humor Writer Ralph Schoenstein.) But the quips are frequently funny, and pure Cosby. Noting that underwear keeps getting tighter as one grows older, he observes, "It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size Jockey shorts for his entire life...
...this is not enough. No legislation can protect the fifty-cent cup of coffee. Harvard University, though, can join forces with the many local residents pushing for tighter zoning restrictions to keep the business district from sprawling upward and outward...
...white moderates who last month flew to Dakar, Senegal, for talks with leaders of the banned African National Congress. "Let Dakar be a lesson to all South Africans," thundered Botha in Parliament. "A leopard never changes its spots." In the future, he warned, the government will maintain tighter control over the issuance and renewal of passports and will set up a commission to look into the activities and funding of organizations like the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa, the antiapartheid group that planned the trip to Dakar...
Director Roger Donaldson (Smash Palace) knows that action of all kinds intensifies when it is staged in tight spots, and there is no tighter one for a murder suspect than the Pentagon. Why Donaldson and Writer Robert Garland chose to sacrifice sympathy for Costner's character (and their well-made movie) by giving him a second, superfluous identity is a mystery infinitely more baffling than the one they have made...