Word: closely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always know what to expect from Harvard," Riley said. "Year in and year out they are one of the best teams in the league. We want to keep it close, play strong defense and maybe sneak in a goal near the end of the game...
...connections betwen Bush and Nixon are sufficiently numerous to be distressing. Nixon himself was a close advisor to the Bush campaign, and the President-elect's aides proudly point to their party's elder crook as the one who gave direction to their campaign strategy. Among the first people President-elect George Bush contacted was none other than Tricky Dick. Former Nixon men, including Fred Malek and Dwight Chapin, played a part in Bush's campaign...
...Asian-Americans are encountering close-minded, stereotypical depictions similar to those long directed at Blacks. Evidence of racial antipathy toward Asian-Americans abounds in movies and television--where they are usually portrayed as samurais, Charlie Chans, dry cleaners, waiters, sages. They are seen as docile, servile, inarticulate and "inscrutable," or as barbaric, paganistic and violent...
...opened full blast, all of a sudden--it was coming out at such a rate that it was hard to close...
...might say other teams in other sports have suffered similar fates. Look, you might say, at the Boston Red Sox. They have come close so many times to a World Series championship. But they haven't won one since 1918. The Cleveland Browns have not suffered as much as the Red Sox, you might say. So stop complaining...