Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this contact allows British undergraduates have a much closer relationship with faculty members than Americans do, the fellows...
Party leaders had hoped to create a bandwagon, but now their mood was closer to circle the wagons. After 32 state primaries and caucuses, the Democrats seemed no closer to selecting a nominee than when the process began. In fact, the Democratic disarray is so complete that it is becoming difficult to imagine how the party will coalesce around any current contender...
...superior to his Western counterpart. Since the latest round of emigration and exchange, epitomized by Vladimir Horowitz's triumphant return to his homeland two years ago, the inordinate fear of Communist musical supremacy has waned as familiarity has grown and widened. Ten feet tall? Five foot eight may be closer to the mark...
...publicly reviled at home. Engaging in a shrewd game of stalling and sliding, Shamir, who got his start as a leader in the Jewish underground in pre-1948 Palestine, managed to avoid an open confrontation with his U.S. allies: he neither formally rejected their proposal nor moved an inch closer to it. At the same time he managed to create the general impression that his differences with the U.S. were a mere ripple in an otherwise harmonious friendship. The Reagan Administration too seemed eager to put the best possible light on the meetings. "What I am happy to tell...
Moreover, even the developers wonder whether pilots in a crunch will trust their lives to silicon advisers. Chris Spiegl of Texas Instruments, which is developing the system with McDonnell Douglas, notes that to better their concentration, many pilots begin turning off automatic systems the closer they get to combat...