Word: tighter
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...some of the kids that were shooting,” Delaney-Smith said. “You can only pack in your zone so long, and if they’re going to make those shots, you have to go out and play them a little bit tighter...
...number of bad notes in circulation. Already, Greek kiosk owners in Thessaloniki, not far from the borders of Bulgaria and the former Yugoslavia, are buying up large quantities of special scanners and pens with UV lights to spot fakes. What progress has been made is the result of tighter coordination between police inside and outside the euro zone. Until recently, police in Western Europe rarely shared actionable intelligence with their Eastern counterparts. But that is starting to change. Busts in Bulgaria, for example, were the result of tip-offs from U.S. and German police, as well as Europol, which serves...
Significantly, the two nations have reacted in different ways to Sept. 11, 2001. After the attacks, says Martin, many in the U.S. came to think that "security trumps trade." Not so in Canada. Many of the "security first" policies that have been adopted in the U.S.--such as much tighter border and immigration controls, restrictions on civil liberties and pre-emptive war--won't fly in Canada. Canadians recognize that their nation faces the threat from international terrorism, just as their neighbor does. But Canada isn't a frigid version of the U.S., and it wants to handle that threat...
...Obviously, this cannot continue for long,” Kirby said. “Budgets, in short, will be even tighter. And we will have to make careful financial decisions...
That old myth that men think about sex, on average, every 10 seconds is true in our society. When we see girls walking around in tight shirts and tighter pants, what are we supposed to do? This is what men are all about. Most of us, inevitably, objectify, and we reduce the girls we see to pieces of meat. This is our visceral reaction. It is not “right,” but it is natural...