Word: closely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japan some thought they smelled a "political maneuver." Since U.S. agencies like to have at least two bidders on any contract, the exit of ETA opened a window of opportunity for Cray's Japanese rivals. The Cray split, they suspect, may have been designed to close that window. Cray officials do not deny it. Chuckles one: "They got the message in a hurry...
...spirit of much of the week-long demonstration was exuberant, as though a long-silent nation had again found its voice. Acrobats tumbled, children sang and banged drums, and musicians from both the Central Philharmonic and a rock band performed to offer the students "spiritual uplifting." A pack of close to 200 Beijing ) motorcyclists, many of them getihu (private entrepreneurs), roared along Changan Avenue, which leads into the square, their girlfriends sitting behind them, clinging tightly...
...public life. He has been oddly silent on Wright, his own leader, while admitting the questions he gets back home in his district are becoming more unsettling and more numerous. "Letting the process run," as he puts it to his constituents, obviously has its limits. We may be close this week...
Wright spokesperson Mark Johnson said the Texas Democrat planned a weekend getaway with his wife Betty to an undisclosed location. One lawmaker close to the talks speculated that Wright would spend the time writing his final speech...
Championship games are usually followed by scenes of celebration and dejection. Members of the winning team pile on each other. Members of the losing team crumple into balls of misery or lay on the turf like they have just had a close encounter with a Mack truck...