Word: tightest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Both Harvard and Yale have been involved in some of the tightest Ivy contests of the season, but the Crimson and the Bulldogs have both emerged from those encounters facing very different fates...
...another family in this briskly cathartic film: the brilliant acting ensemble. Almodovar cherishes the notion of a family of actors--the gypsies who, for a few months, become as close as siblings under the maternal eye of their director. So with each new project he plans reunions, forming the tightest stock company in movies. Nearly a dozen actors have appeared in three or more of his films. One, Antonio Banderas, segued into American stardom. The others are all actresses, including Paredes, Carmen Maura and Victoria Abril. Almodovar is the man who loves women, who understands them, who writes women...
...suite. Karmazin's business strategy has been bluntly effective: pay top dollar for what he calls "oceanfront property"--prime stations in major markets, celebrities like Stern and Imus, the rights to the NFL--and then look to recoup the money by slashing administrative and staffing costs and running the tightest of ships...
Having shot to the top of the commentariat, Turley and the other upstart impeachment specialists may now come tumbling down, casualties of the scandal's end. Not just pundits but also entire cable-news networks would seem to need new identities. Yet the three networks that lashed themselves tightest to the mast of this story--CNN, MSNBC and Fox News Channel--won't let it go gently. "It's been a very good 12 months for us," says Erik Sorenson, vice president and general manager of MSNBC, perhaps the most Monicamaniacal of all. Sorenson says the network has "already started...
After voicing initial concerns about the potential cost, U.S. industry has shown itself more open to hiring people with disabilities--especially in the midst of the tightest labor market in memory. In 1994, the latest year for which U.S. Census Bureau statistics are available, some 3.7 million people with severe disabilities were at work, up from 2.9 million three years earlier. That said, there is still a long way to go. As the employment numbers also indicate, a large proportion of America's disabled population still has its nose pressed against the workplace window. Prejudice, lack of adequate transportation...