Word: closer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...squads exchanged baskets for several minutes, and the Crimson was able to pull no closer than 37-32 after a David Lang jumpshot at the 6:25 mark...
Less important, he said, was helping professorswho could only afford homes in outlying towns, butwho wanted to live closer to their students."Unless you could locate people in Cambridge, itwas difficult to keep them on our faculty," hesaid...
...refused to give ground on defense-spending cuts. The Republicans opened the bidding by offering Pentagon reductions totaling $4 billion. The Democrats countered with a suggestion for a $6.3 billion cut. At one point, a compromise of around $5.3 billion was in the works. But the final figure was closer to Reagan's liking: $4.9 billion. "We were constantly fighting over the defense numbers," said one participant. "Every inch was a battle." Many Democratic summiteers were annoyed that the new Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci sat in on many of the early sessions, looking out for the Pentagon's interests...
...controversial gay rights bill moved one step closer to becoming Massachsetts law when the state Senate decided yesterday to sent the proposal back to committee for final fine-turning...
...came closer than we ever have this year, but that doesn't mean that we are close," she said...