Word: closer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...councilors discussed solutions to this problem, including moving taxi stands closer to residential districts, so that a driver would not have to travel far to pick up a passenger at home; changing the fare structure to make short trips more lucrative; or requiring taxi drivers to pick up passengers referred to them by the radio dispatchers...
...congressional investigators were closer together on another potential dispute. The House committee and the Senate panel announced that they will hold their public hearings on Iranscam jointly, a move that the legislators had earlier rejected. The dates for these hearings have been pushed back twice. Slated to begin early this month, they are now scheduled for late April...
...grim style for the story. Garish, ominous colors flash vividly across his monochrome palette. The streets keep sweating rain, and clouds loom over the bayou like threats written in cigar smoke. Images of mirrors, feet, overhead fans, unknown soldiers and shrouded figures punctuate Harry's waking dreams, inching him closer to the terrible truth...
...rest of the cast has a tougher time of it. It is not always that they are untalented; individually they no doubt can hold their own with the best. But when asked to play a crowd scene as a group of battle-weary marines, these hapless undergrads come closer to innocents abroad. They exude the same kind of pseudo-confidence with which teen-age virgin boys discuss...
Harvard never managed to wrest the lead away, however, and Dartmouth stiffened after Webster's bomb. The Crimson got within four points a number of times down the stretch but could never get any closer to the Randall-led Green...