Word: tighten
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...that Mayer was too busy trying to finish his script to spend more time rehearsing his actors, but--hell--I can sympathize with slow, thoughtful writers--this review was scheduled to run yesterday. Though the production is untidy and the play unfinished (Mayer might fill out his protagonist and tighten in particular the first act). Aladdin is an exhilarating reminder that theatrical magic is most wondrous when it is achieved without tricks...
Indeed, a plan to tighten the market back up, was precisely what the six OPEC ministers had gathered in Geneva to discuss. At the meeting was not just Saudi Arabia's Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, whose nation accounts for almost half of the cartel's oil output, but representatives of Kuwait, Nigeria, Algeria, Indonesia and Venezuela as well...
...college more difficult. But Andrews' classmate Susanna Burger, who hopes some day to get a G.S.L. loan, understands what Reagan is trying to do. Her view: "Since there seem to be a lot of people not paying back their loans, I think it's logical to tighten up this whole program...
Downs picked up his first win of the day in the 400-yd. -individual medley, qualifying for the Eastern Seaboard Championships in the process. Also qualifying for the Easterns in the same race were teammates Countryman and Julian Bott. Later in the meet, when things were really beginning to tighten up, Downs made his second trip to the winner's circle by saving off two Quakers in the 500-yd. freestyle...
...opens the red folder reserved for classified material and frowns over one document. His lips tighten, he shakes his head, lets out an audible "Hmmm" and replaces the paper. In Sacramento, Reagan relied heavily on one-page "minimemos" prepared by his staff. Now the memorandums are longer, and they conclude with a space for Reagan to indicate one of four options: approve, approve as amended, reject, no action. Some of the memos are thoroughly routine. On this Lincoln's Birthday Reagan promotes nine military general officers and approves a presidential proclamation on agriculture...