Word: closeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cardinal (3-4-1) has been inconsistent this season. After opening the season with two impressive wins, including a 7-0 thumping of San Jose State, Stanford lost a close decision to the Hoosiers...
...match point at 14-12, but Williams quickly ran off three straight points for a set point of its own. Harvard regained its serve, but a mammoth block by McConnell gave Williams one more chance to serve out the set. That was all the visitors needed to close out the frame, 16-14. The momentum had switched...
Since the West Roxbury accident, the board of directors of the Greater Boston YMCA will close its swimming pools for three days to allow structural engineers to examine them...
...been suspended, strike leaders still meet three times a week to prepare for a possible resumption. "The strikes are a strong influence on the government to revise the laws," said factory worker Vladimir Shorikin. Igor Shepelevich, director of a computer-chip plant, explained that new strikes could pretty well close down Estonia. "The republic's railroads, airports, seaports and power systems are all run by Russians," he pointed out. In Moldavia recent strikes by Russians left tomatoes rotting in fields and railroad cars standing empty at stations, worsening the Soviet Union's food shortages...
...plunger. Says Ingersoll: "He was still thinking in hundreds of thousands when I was thinking in millions. He never really understood the fungibility of debt and equity." Later, capital for some deals was assembled by indicted Drexel junk-bond financier Michael Milken, whom Ingersoll regards as a close friend. Says media analyst John Morton of Lynch Jones & Ryan in Washington: "From all we can learn, the company is healthy, although heavily leveraged. The small papers are cash cows. I admire him for taking this risky venture. But I'm from Missouri on this one -- he'll have to show...