Word: tighter
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...always been selected in France. If it were a vote among party sympathizers, as primaries are in the United States, Royal would roll to victory, pulled by polls suggesting she is the only Socialist who can win in the spring. Instead it is a vote among party members, a tighter circle widely thought to include many more supporters of the old guard - not to mention lots of schoolteachers. The results of the first round are expected early on Friday morning; Royal dearly hopes she can nail it this week and avoid a tougher second round...
...nation; a cleaner environment; regional security; Australian values. Howard would feel comfortable with that list?sometimes the two leaders stand behind the same white picket fence. Of course, it's the actual policies that have to pass muster, first with the professional scrutinizers and then with voters. The tighter the fit between the oratory and what Beazley puts on the table, the better chance Labor will have of securing its base and winning new voters in marginal seats...
...meeting of House Committee (HoCo) chairs last night, Drake encouraged House leaders to contact their sister colleges at Yale to encourage them to come.Quincy House Co-chair Melissa M. Trahan ’07 said she identified with Yale’s reluctance to come in the face of tighter alcohol restrictions.“I mean I definitely have strong personal reservations for these rules,” she said. “If it weren’t for my love for the school and Quincy I would just go to the game and not the tailgate...
...clear plan for handling the war. But Bush has lived by the political philosophy that when the crowd is against you, you just strut more boldly across the stage. That's why he held a news conference a few days ago to hug his war policy even tighter. It is there that he argued that staying the course means "constantly changing tactics" and that benchmarks (good) aren't the same as timetables (bad). But it was as if no one was listening. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki declared that he wouldn't abide by either...
...Notably absent, however, will be North Korea's most important economic ally, China. Still, a top U.S. official says in meetings in Beijing last week, Secretary Condoleezza Rice received some encouragement when she pressed for tighter controls along China's thinly-patrolled 880-mile border with North Korea to enforce U.N. Security Council-mandated sanctions barring commerce that would advance that nation's nuclear and missile programs. "The Chinese reaffirmed that they support the principles and the objectives of the [Proliferation Security] Initiative but they're not at a point?where they're able to formally endorse the initiative," says...