Word: closely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saturday, Harvard took on Navy, which had defeated Yale, in the quarterfinals. The Midshipmen actually won the doubles point with close victories by Mitch Koch/ Jim McHugh at No.1, 9-8 (8-6), and by Spencer Wilcox and Zafar Fisher, 9-8 (7-4), over Lee and Choo in another close match. However, the Crimson won five out of the six singles, all in straight sets, for the 5-2 victory...
Adolph Ochs was very close to financial ruin when he set out to buy the New York Times, which was losing $1,000 a day. The newspaper Ochs already owned, in Chattanooga, Tenn., was almost underwater, and his personal debts were threatening to sink him and the large extended family he supported. His plan was to save the paper and himself by breaking into the big city market. With brilliant personal salesmanship and no little bit of financial finagling, he finally won the backing he needed. On Aug. 19, 1896, he announced on the front page of his newly acquired...
Good communication and that spirit of compromise have helped keep Meera's family close. That's not always the case in modern multicultural America, says sociology professor Schlesinger. The tragic irony is that many immigrants come to the U.S. in search of a better life for their children and grandchildren. But in order to achieve the goal set by their elders, the younger generation must assimilate, and when they do, they become strangers who speak a different language and live by an alien code. "The grandparent has achieved his American Dream," says Schlesinger, "but at a terrible cost." Exacerbating...
...that produced the stay-at-home dad have introduced the caregiver granddad. Peter Gross, a retired law professor, picks up grandsons Paul, 3, and Mark, 18 months, every weekday morning at 8:15 and cares for them in his San Francisco home until 6 p.m. "It's a very close, intense relationship that's at the center of my life," says Gross. "What a relief to retire from the hurly-burly of the adult institutions of our world, where b.s. and politics and limitations tend to dominate, and move into this place of love and truth and nurturing and connection...
...more excited than scared. The procedure wasn't painful. It was over in 10 minutes. It was worse for my husband, who watched close up on a TV monitor and said it was almost as bad as watching my caesarean. I went home, took a nap, woke up--and could see the clock across the room. At the doctor's the next day, I was seeing 20/20 with my left eye, 20/40 with my right...