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David Halberstam comes to Cambridge to push his latest best-seller, a history of the influence squatters exerted on the settlement of California by refusing to spend money, entitled The West and the Tightest...
...biggest in Illinois. Others are keeping their mortgage windows open a mere crack by granting loans only to long-time depositors, and in some cases actually demanding that a home buyer maintain a savings-account balance equal to the size of the mortgage loan he seeks. The market is tightest in states like New York and Illinois, where usury laws keep mortgage-interest rates below 9%, making loan officers reluctant to accommodate any but the best-heeled home buyers...
...BILL EVENS TRIO was the tightest set and it was apparent that these musicians had played together before. They gave a polished performance in which pianist Evans virtually outshone everyone at the jam session. The duet between Vibraphonist Gary Burton and Evans was one of the most outstanding sequences of the night and Evans's finale--a vibrating crescendoing run--concluded the best set of the night...
Devil's Island was supposed to be one of the world's tightest prisons. And one of the world's tightest movie sets is the location in Jamaica where Papillon, Henri Charrière's bestselling account of his escape, is being filmed...
...this to the close community of interests that the hospital aides share with the patients. This is true especially at Boston City Hospital where most of the workers come from the community, Lisa explained. Because service employees can't increase their productivity and they feel the inflation squeeze the tightest, they are potentially more radical than commodity producers...