Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Associates and acquaintances of Regan predict, as Washington Lobbyist Jack Albertine puts it, that "he will be one of the strongest chiefs of staff in history. The White House will be a tight ship." That may be overstated, but it is clear that the collegial style of staff organization, in which Baker had ultimately emerged first among equals, had been breaking down. Meese had been sidetracked by his confirmation troubles and the investigations of his personal business dealings with friends who later gained federal jobs. Baker was burning out, and Deaver felt pinched on his Government salary...
...stands to earn the group an $89 million profit, and started speculation about Pickens' next target. "I think he is going to do the same thing again, and sooner rather than later," says Alan Edgar, an energy analyst for Schneider, Bernet & Hickman, a Dallas securities firm. Pickens himself remains tight-lipped: "We'll look at anything that makes sense," he says. "And that's the end of that conversation...
...journalistic" homage to Gericault's Raft of the Medusa, but the scores of figures dumbly raging for survival in the cold green water have nothing classical about them. Already one sees some of the main traits of mature Beckmann breaking through: especially the sense of packed humanity in tight spaces that somehow betoken worse things beyond their walls; the tilted, frontal picture plane; the voids that jostle as emphatically as the solids...
...standing at attention seemed to sway slightly as soldiers moved from one leg to the other trying to keep warm. Looking down from atop the Lenin Mausoleum, members of the Politburo of the Communist Party tugged at the earflaps of their thick fur hats and pulled their coat collars tight. They had braved -7 degrees F weather last week to pay tribute to the late Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov and to witness the sealing of his ashes in a burial niche in the Kremlin wall...
...election campaign heated up, the Administration had harsh words for the Federal Reserve, where Chairman Paul Volcker stood firm for a restrictive policy. Said Treasury Secretary Donald Regan in May: "If the Fed continues on its tight path now, it will have an effect on November and December. Is that politics, and does that have us worried? You bet your life it has us worried...