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...contrast, within the close-knit fraternity of international bankers, Quraishi's moods can vary from cold calculation to disarming cordiality. Says a London banker who deals with him often: "When he squints his eyes, you have to watch out. When his eyes twinkle, you know you are doing well...
...Gastarbeiter (guest workers) and their families. Their close-knit ghettos near industrial centers would have given Agca plenty of cover, as they have for other extremists in exile. A contact with the P.F.L.P. would have been possible in such a ghetto. West German authorities say that militant Turkish right-wingers there have sent followers to Lebanon for training by the P.F.L.P. Turkish officials believe that members of Agca's own National Action Party were trained in Palestinian camps in Lebanon...
...promised by the President at the Detroit airport will do little to ease the immediate pain of an American auto depression that has left nearly 300,000 assembly-line workers and white-collar executives jobless. But Carter held out the prospect of something potentially more far reaching: a new "close-knit, permanent partnership" with automakers and their employees...
...family there's going to be a little friction over something as the kids go through adolescence," says the youngest Reagan. "Nothing is nirvana. But the recent stories have been exaggerated. Being close-knit has become almost a physical impossibility, since we're so spread out. We haven't had big sit-downs over meat and potatoes. It hasn't been the Waltons or anything. But we're fairly close, emotionally. There is a bond...
...question of putting the other guy down," the pre-med said. "Diving is more social than swimming can be because you can talk between dives but you can't during laps. Swimmers need to be a little hostile to each other, I think, but divers can be close-knit within themselves...