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Word: tightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although both of the powerful teams anticipated a tight race, the lights blew Penn out. Last year, the Black and White topped Penn by a single second...

Author: By Linda A. Flaherty, | Title: B & W Lights Defeat Penn; Radcliffe Remains Undefeated | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

...these four matches finished up, the number five and six singles player, freshman Cyndy Austrian and Captain Debbie Kaufman, were entering the third sets of their extremely tight matches...

Author: By John Zilcosky, | Title: Netwomen Trounce Elis; Crimson Survives Scare | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

...This will be an incredibly tight race," Co-Captain Nina Streeter says. "The margin will be close, but I have faith in the crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Black and White Awaits Showdowns | 4/20/1985 | See Source »

...personal computers is being limited to places like classrooms and community centers where it can be monitored and supervised. The reason for the caution is that the personal computer threatens the Kremlin's tight control over what the Soviet people see and read. Says Olin Robison, president of Middlebury College in Vermont and a Soviet expert: "The Russians can't easily accommodate computer technology because it gives too many people too much information." Secrecy is so vital to the Soviet system that printing presses or even photocopying machines are unavailable to the average citizen. Since personal computers attached to printers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing Computer Catch-Up | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

Human beings are rarely more nauseating than when they play the do-gooder and know it. The tight lipped evil of a monocled Erie Stroherm snapping his swagger stick has nothing on the gagging scale to the beatific smiles found on any evangelical show, their lips drooling the milk of human kindness. The only reason that the prototypical single of the Band band-wagon ("Do They Know It's Christmas") could be stomached was that it got no higher on the saccharinemeter than the usual sappy Christmas season pieties that inundate America's speakers after Thanksgiving. Radio stations had enough...

Author: By Charles M. Sneid, | Title: We Fooled the World | 4/11/1985 | See Source »

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