Word: tightener
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...middle of the presidential campaign, both candidates mainly used last week's announcement to reinforce longstanding positions. While the next President can't reverse the FDA outright, he could pick an FDA commissioner and a Health and Human Services Secretary who would raise safety questions and try to tighten distribution--with the goal of making medical abortion just as hard to get as surgical abortion...
...time are huge, and it's why he's talking about issues that would have a tangible effect on their life--tame that HMO, get prescription drugs covered for Mom and Dad. If his base came home and the waitresses tuned in, a top Gore aide explained, Gore could tighten the race and then turn his attention to more affluent swing voters with a sunnier, centrist message, and the battle hymn could fade again to the background...
...have caught half a dozen muskies in that time (all released). The biggest I ever had on the line - about four feet long, as the judge, who was manning the net, will attest - was almost in the boat when, being an idiot, I thought to tighten the drag a little (a violation of one of the simplest rules) and the monster thrashed loose. Hast seen the white whale...
...mirror on the wall, who is the greenest of them all? There was a whiff of fairy tale to the spectacle of the globe's two biggest automakers preening over their environmental images last week. For decades, General Motors and the Ford Motor Co. have publicly resisted attempts to tighten fuel economy and clean up toxic tailpipes. All the while, they have outdone one another in launching ever more gas-guzzling behemoths. Yet there they were, suddenly jostling each other over which could produce more fuel-efficient vehicles...
This "red alert" issue, as the Mexicans see it, was raised in Washington talks last Friday between Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon and President Clinton. Both men agreed to tighten their side of the common border. Says Mexico's Foreign Secretary Rosario Green: "This is racist behavior that violates all international rules...