Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rent control advocates see Harvard's preferential sales of property to faculty members as a means of displacing local residents in favor of professors. University officials have admitted that their property sales to Harvard faculty members are not designed solely to help poor professors find housing in this tight housing market; they're also out to make a fast buck on buildings sometimes valued at $400,000. In the process, they're displacing longterm tenants of these buildings who were once protected under rent control...
...president of the National Council on Compulsive Gambling: "The state approved drinking but it doesn't promote it. Yet the state is promoting, advocating and pushing risk-taking behavior like gambling." Some critics complained that in using games of chance to raise revenue, states mainly exploit poorer people, whose tight financial straits tempt them to give in to dreams of hitting it big. Said Sociologist Eric Hirsch of Columbia University: "It's the American dream to get rich quickly, but the lottery holds up false hope for people. Nobody who has any real understanding of the number 6 million would...
...establish a 20-bed, transitional shelter for men and women trying to find permanent homes. The 11-year-old non-profit organization, which already operates a similar shelter at 109 School St. in Cambridge, had searched for two years to find a permanent location in the city's tight housing market...
...past, and especially during the tenure of Spence's predecessor, Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky, the dean of the Faculty has traditionally run a tight ship and maintained a strong hold over all University Hall operations. And Spence, despite his well-experienced staff, contends that he will maintain strong control over the operation...
...playing is impeccably skilled and tight but the songs often sound too well-crafted; they rarely breathe because the feeling has been orchestrated and belabored out of them...