Word: tighter
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...directly connected, it is clear that the team that can make it out of the ECAC—with its top caliber upper level of teams—is automatically a contender on the national level. This season, team members say they expect the competition to be even tighter than the last two years because of the impact that the Olympics will have, especially on ECAC teams. “Most teams have lost at least one player to either the U.S. or Canadian National teams, and that’s going to bring all the teams closer together...
...universal, insiders say that women tend to play less aggressively than men but that women have certain advantages. "Poker requires patience, discipline and good intuition," says Ron Burke, president of EmpirePoker.com "which women are strong in." His company's research shows that female players tend to be more cautious--tighter, in poker parlance--more patient and more disciplined. Women do bluff but generally with more attention to the odds. Women make more online notes about opponents' playing styles, and over time they show more improvement than...
...benefits. Brash says that's not enough. At a time when businesses are finding it hard to fill job vacancies, 15% of the working-age population are being paid not to work, he says. It's costing $NZ14 million a day. National wants tougher work tests for the unemployed, tighter controls on those claiming they are too ill to work, and welfare mothers to participate in work or training when their youngest child is of school age. Brash's message of personal responsibility and hard work is striking a chord with taxpayers. But, as one government social worker from Auckland...
When students are hospitalized--or worse yet, die from alcohol poisoning, which happens about 300 times each year--college presidents tend to react by declaring their campuses dry or shutting down fraternity houses. But tighter enforcement of the minimum drinking age of 21 is not the solution. It's part of the problem...
...this may well be a problem that they can't fix, although the fact that NASA has stopped future flights also signals the much tighter safety standards that are now in place. Shuttles have been shedding tiles and foam for years, but luck and careful maintenance prevented tragedies. Then Columbia happened. Since then, NASA has narrowed the aperture of danger it is willing to tolerate. The current shuttle, by comparison to some of the previous missions, is remarkably clean despite the foam that fell off. In that respect, it shows that the work of the past two years has produced...