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Its one of the large scale serials that Republic did in the late 30's and early 40's before budgets got tighter thanks to wartime austerity.
It's unfortunately pretty poorly directed, and the writing could have been tighter.
I guess if you are fans of those guys there is something in here, but couldn't you have given them a tighter story, and better execution.
The writers sitting down and figuring out some tighter storyline rather than getting the easy way out and shrugging off all coherence.
I wish it had been better written and tighter all around.
This film becomes better because it was made on a tighter budget, when the crew had to come up with inventive ways to create atmosphere, menace and a sustained mood.
The action is watchable but we can see what's going to happen as the government gets a tighter reign on concealing the information.
A tighter film would have meant we were on the edge of our seats throughout and, possibly more importantly, forced the director (or writer) to get what they wanted to say more simply expressed.
Deathtrap, also with Caine is a subtle retelling of this tale, only tighter, and with a woman character added.
In May, in his first major policy speech, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced the sweeping away of the “Big Brother” state that Blair had constructed: no more ID cards or national identity register, new restrictions on the storage of DNA, tighter regulation of the closed-circuit television surveillance that had made the British the most monitored people on earth, and so on.
If this were simply a sign of a new, tighter focus on viable long-term strategies, it might be regarded it as a benign development.
First, tighter sanctions make sense only as a diplomatic tool, not as a blunt instrument of coercion.
Any suggestion that the Fed will hike faster or sooner than anticipated leads to fears of tighter financial conditions, and violent risk-off moves.
The danger now is that Macron will achieve only a token eurozone budget in exchange for even tighter controls on national budgets, which would prove economically harmful and politically poisonous.
Looser fiscal policy and tighter monetary policy should, as in former President Ronald Reagan’s first term, strengthen the dollar; but if Trump pushes the US toward protectionism, he will generate economic and geopolitical tail risks that would weaken the dollar and increase US country risk.
Looser fiscal policy would help short-term economic growth; but tighter monetary policy would undercut those gains.
This is especially true in developing countries’ health-care systems, which often confront tighter resource constraints than health care in developed countries.
Then from the Depression, and the introduction of new and tighter regulation, financial sector pay reverted to the norm, and remained there until around 1990.
But the emergence of fraud and the failures of some peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms point to the need for tighter regulations to maintain systemic stability.
With the US Federal Reserve set to tighten the exceptionally generous monetary conditions that have driven this “easy growth,” such emerging economies will have to change their approach, despite much tighter room for maneuver, or risk losing the ground that they have gained in recent years.
A tighter Fiscal Compact would practically eliminate the risk of default.
For Xi, the ease with which the Kremlin has manipulated Facebook and Twitter demonstrates the need for a tighter grip on China’s own social-media platforms.
Governments need to set standards that become progressively tighter over time.
As a new Europe began showing its face, the single currency was the bright creation of visionaries who saw the chance of making an even tighter relationship between European countries.
As the European Commission has proposed, the strengthened pact will have tighter deficit limits for heavily indebted countries.
It may have been a singular occurrence that reflected a variety of factors, including the euro crisis; continued economic weakness in many European countries; the sharp decline in commodity prices; dramatic slowdowns in Brazil, Russia, and other emerging economies; and tighter regulations for international banks, which might have hindered trade finance.
Using satellite data for major US cities, the economist Albert Saiz of MIT confirmed that tighter physical constraints – such as surrounding bodies of water or land gradients that make properties unsuitable for extensive building – tend to correlate with higher home prices.
Tax cuts and interest-rate normalization, I expected, would shift the mix toward looser fiscal and tighter monetary policies, the combination that drove up the dollar in the Reagan-Volcker years.
But the situation has only deteriorated, owing partly to China’s economic slowdown, the end of the commodity boom, tighter international financial conditions, weak global growth, and a years-long legacy of policy mismanagement.
But important cost-containing changes in the private health-care system, including more cost-sharing in private insurance plans and tighter controls in managed care, have also contributed to the slowdown.
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