Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baseball, softball and men's and women's lacrosse squads--the Crimson teams most directly affected by the snow covered fields--may all get a little closer in the next few days, as the teams are forced to keep their shows locked inside...
...Naval Reserve in 1980 at the age of 44. He wanted to be ready to serve in the Persian Gulf if war broke out, he explained, although as a noncombat officer in the Judge Advocate General's Corps-a military lawyer-he would probably get no closer to the front than the naval base at Norfolk, Va. In 1979 he separated from his wife Lee, who had been his college sweetheart; they got back together in 1980, separated again in 1981, then reconciled a few months before he announced his presidential candidacy...
...total in his February budget proposal. Last week's plan would reduce the deficit by a further $75 billion, or 14%, over three years. It would result in a deficit in fiscal year 1987 of at least $143 billion; without the proposed cuts, the deficit would be closer to $200 billion-or more...
Detroit's factories are getting their workers closer to what they are making. At the plant where Pontiac builds its stylish Fiero, Manager Ernie Schaefer has eliminated one rank of supervisors, forcing responsibility on line workers. The pressure is on, he says, "to do it right the first time." At a Buick plant in Flint, Mich., a worker monitors the reliability of springs on a computer screen, rejecting those that do not measure up. Says Utilityman James Adkins: "I like it. It makes my job easier...
Rovere has a caricaturist's instinct for the grotesqueries of stump and smoke-choked room, of presidential campaigns, congressional hearings ("Nothing that Washington has to offer comes closer to theater") and state visits. He is at Nikita Khrushchev's elbow when the Soviet leader praises the bleak industrial landscape of the New Jersey Turnpike as a symbol of American dynamism; with Bess and Harry Truman as the couple, in bathrobes, bid good night from the back of their campaign train to an impromptu crowd of fellow ordinary Americans. Rovere's political analyses-about the Truman Administration...