Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thomas O'Brien and Radcliffe Treasurer Louis R. Morrell okayed a Chamber of Commerce petition protesting the controversial zoning amendments. The proposed changes would require builders to provide low cost housing in return for the strain their developments put on the tight Cambridge housing market...
...Vatican last year, John Paul installed two other key hard-liners. Jean Jerome Hamer, 68, a Belgian, was dubbed "the Hammer" during his years as No. 2 man at the doctrinal congregation. He was John Paul's choice to replace the indulgent Eduardo Cardinal Pironio and keep a tight rein on the congregation that supervises religious orders. Hamer, now enmeshed in the crucial test of wills with U.S. nuns over the abortion issue, is deemed by some leading sisters to be uncommunicative and insensitive toward women. Augustin Mayer, 73, a German workaholic, was for years the top aide to Pironio...
...leak in a chemical plant in Bhopal that killed more than 2,500 people, Indians were stunned last week by yet another national crisis. This time the bombshell was the exposure of an espionage network that had penetrated to the highest reaches of the government. Before clamping a tight lid on details of the investigation, India's youthful new leader, Rajiv Gandhi, whose Congress (I) Party won a sweeping majority in national elections only a month ago, gravely informed Parliament that the country's security had been compromised by a spy scandal that he characterized as "the most serious ever...
...four-year stay in the U.S. The government had taken some of the drama from his arrival, first by dropping the subversion charges against him only two days before his homecoming, and then by inviting Salonga's family to participate with the military and other civilians in enforcing tight security precautions at the airport. Said General Hermilo Ahorro, deputy police chief: "It all went very smoothly this time...
Women have a little more flexibility, depending whom they want to be taken for. Angora sweater, tight skirt, colored nylons and pumps the Screaming Wellesley. Useful only if you want six slobbering moustaches in leather jackets and open shirts crooning. "We sure is from Harvard" as their breath corrodes your makeup. On a weekend, looking like you're almost off to a party provides a useful excuse to disengage from the lovestruck Lothario trying to stuff his phone number down your décolletage ("Excuse me, I'm expected at the party the football team is throwing"). Another weekend option...