Word: closer
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...proud," O'Leary said. "That was thematch of the river rivals. We've been building upfor it all season. I thought it would be closer,but I should have known better...
...Initiative that would be permitted under a more comprehensive arms agreement. At Reykjavik Gorbachev had insisted on laboratory research only; to Shultz in Moscow he defined "laboratory research" as including tests of SDI components that could be conducted on the ground. That did not necessarily bring an agreement any closer. The U.S. insists on conducting tests in space also, and indeed on the right eventually to deploy SDI. Gorbachev has demanded that stern limits on SDI accompany any Soviet-American agreement on deep cuts in long-range nuclear missiles, and on that his position is unchanged...
...BEGINNING IN THE 1890s,landscapes came to dominate the Russian artisticvocabulary. According to Frierson, the land itselfbecame the subject of the paintings, while thepeasant became only one element in the broaderimage of the Russian countryside. Realism has beenabandoned in these paintings for a newromanticism, an idealized vision of naturestylistically closer to the middle ImpressionistsYet the land was Russian, even if the techniquewas French, and the works from this period arestill distinctly Russian in character...
...game been closer or the opponent more dangerous--the University of Massachusetts, for instance, or (God forbid) Dartmouth--the official rulings might have provoked heated protests from the Crimson bench and from the players who scored the goals...
Nonetheless, some colleges are making efforts to trim budgets and pass along the savings. Penn hopes to save $12 million next year by closer management of employee benefits. Cornell is reducing operating expenditures across the board by 2%, allowing it to post a 7% tuition increase, its smallest in 14 years. A few institutions are dropping secondary programs. Georgetown, for example, has eliminated one-third of its graduate programs in the past five years and recently decided to close its dental school. "We can't be all things to all students," says Treasurer George Houston...