Word: knit
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...positive result of the operation was that it helped preserve a threatened species. But because elephants in the wild live in tight-knit groups, the relocation was also a major experiment in social engineering--and like so many such experiments, it has had unexpected consequences. Since 1978, almost 1,500 orphan calves, 600 of them males, have been moved to unfamiliar locations and raised with no exposure to adult elephants or the hierarchical social structure that defines elephant life...
...Knight link is hardly arm's length. Knight, 46, went to work for Gore 20 years ago as a top aide in the House and later the Senate; today he is the man who many say is Gore's political alter ego, the smooth operator within Gore's tight-knit inner circle. His name turns up everywhere; he was even on Gore's 1989 trip to Taiwan that was led by overzealous fund raiser John Huang and included a stop at the headquarters of the Buddhist sect whose Southern California temple was host to Gore for his notorious "donor-maintenance...
...dead. They called me and told me he is in a hotel room near La Guardia Airport. I don't know what to do." The distraught woman on the other end of the phone line pleaded with Orlando Tobon, or "Don Orlando" as he is known in the tight-knit neighborhood of Colombian immigrants in the Jackson Heights district of New York City...
According to both Lawson and Fineday, the mid-career program at the K-School is small and fairly tight-knit--two circumstances which Fineday said have contributed greatly to her stay in Cambridge...
...National Enquirer. So says he and a friend, Michael Chang, accompanied Markhasev to a wooded area, apparently on a search. The trio did not find what Markhasev was looking for. Weeks later, when So led the Los Angeles police department to the spot, the officers located a knit cap and pistol. But no fingerprints have been found...