Word: tighter
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...time and quick scoring opportunities. “I think it’s a possession game,” Harvard coach John Tillman said. “When you know you’re winning faceoffs you can play a little looser on offense and play a little tighter on defense, because you feel like you haven’t had the ball in a while...you just have a lot more flexibility.” Smith’s numbers left something to be desired against the Big Red, as the junior won just 3-of-11 matchups...
...golfing skill that it did a generation ago. But the fact that it has gone to such lengths to ensure this consistency touches on a debate in the sport about whether professionals are now hitting the ball too far, and whether the game's governing bodies should place tighter restrictions on their equipment. Many other championship venues have undertaken expansions, and new courses with aspirations of hosting professional events are now built with much higher yardage totals. Longer golf courses require more resources for building and maintenance, and some designers say it would be wiser economically and environmentally to shorten...
...Democrats are skeptical that the Administration has finally seen the merits of tighter financial oversight. They say Bush's move, while a good start and potentially capable of getting bipartisan support, fits more closely with the pattern he has established since they took over Congress in 2006: a near freeze on new regulations unless and until the legislative or scientific ground gives way beneath him, at which point he launches savvy, preemptive moves to limit the scope of any new regulatory power...
...deflation. But what to do when the wind is a cyclone? That is the question confronting the U.S. Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and their counterparts as the financial storm spawned by U.S. subprime mortgages continues to wreak havoc across credit markets. The resulting higher borrowing rates and tighter credit standards threaten to pull the U.S. economy into recession...
...Then there are the 35 Texas superdelegates. At last count, Clinton had 11, Obama had nine, 12 were undecided and another three are to be named later. All those numbers offer numerous possible outcomes; but nearly all of them are likely to make the delegate count tighter than a pair of Wranglers on an urban cowboy...