Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GOOD reporter's duty, ambition and pleasure is to be on the spot when the news happens. Sometimes he finds himself in a tighter spot than some of the participants in the events he is reporting, and this duty becomes less pleasurable. In the past fortnight, two TIMEmen, Africa Correspondent Lee Griggs and Guatemala Stringer Robert Rosenhouse, found themselves too close to the news for comfort...
...speed factor, especially on defense, ruined the Crimson last year, Wilson is optimistic that this year's team will have a tighter defense and a better fast break with added swiftness...
Plunge into Bathos. Nixon is something of a fatalist and no stranger to tight spots. No spot could be tighter than the tense moment in the 1952 campaign when he was caught in the uproar over a Nixon trust fund and found not only Democrats but Dwight Eisenhower's lieutenants ready to throw him off the ticket. Completely on his own, he delivered his well-remembered nationwide TV speech in which he laid bare his personal finances and mentioned, in a plunge into bathos, that the only gift he ever had accepted was the little dog Checkers. The Checkers...
...necessarily, says Paradiso. "There is a much tighter relationship between inventory and sales than we have ever seen before." Where it once took a manufac turer months to shift his inventory position-either because he was top-heavy with goods or could not quickly reorder -today's manufacturer has new methods and machines for inventory control that enable him to keep his inventories tight, move fast when he wants to make a change. In the past, says Paradiso, inventory tended to lag about six months behind sales; today it can be adjusted in a matter of days. "What happens...
Dick Nixon was in a tighter bind. While the religion issue could win him inroads in the South and Midwest, it could lose him the big Northern states-and the election -by welding the many Nixon-disposed Catholics of the cities and suburbs into a pro-Kennedy voting bloc. But there were nuances and traps of all kinds, for all sides, in the religion issue, and both Republicans and Democrats knew...