Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Joan Benoit, just being in the marathon constitutes a triumph. Less than three weeks before the May trials, the women's world-record holder from Maine underwent arthroscopic surgery on her complaining right knee, which finally shut down completely in practice. With microscissors, the doctor snipped a tight bundle of inflamed tissue from just behind the joint on the outside of the knee. "You could hear it snap," he said. "It was like cutting a rubber band...
Security will be tight for the roughly 5,300 delegates and alternates (who will be heavily outnumbered by the 12,000 print and TV journalists expected to attend). Delegates will be escorted by the California Highway Patrol from San Francisco International Airport to their hotels, and they will be hauled to the Moscone Center aboard buses. Inside the mostly underground and mostly windowless center, the delegates will be under watchful eyes too. Taking no chances on a surprise insurrection, the Mondale forces plan to put a staggering total of 600 to 700 whips on the floor, each relaying the word...
Though most of the attention in the Union's most liberal state has focused on the tight primary battle between Democrats Lt. Gov. John F. Kerry and U.S. Rep. James M. Shannon (D-Lawrence), the Republicans, with the not-insignificant help of President Reagan, may retake the seat held by Sen. Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.), who is retiring because of cancer...
...interest loans. In return, the IMF required the debtor government to put its economic house in order. When the deficits were "structural," reflecting permanent changes in a country's terms of trade, such adjustments could be painful: currency devaluation, tax increases, reduced government spending, tight controls on monetary growth. But if the immediate impact was harsh, the long-term goals were healthy, sustainable growth and high employment...
...January 1976, Italy teetered on an economic precipice. Its currency reserves could cover only two months of necessary imports. The lira was plummeting. External credit had dried up. Dramatically, official foreign exchange markets were shut down for five weeks. When they reopened, the government imposed tight restrictions on imports and credit and raised the discount rate 4 percentage points to stem runaway speculation against the lira-all in close cooperation with the IMF. A year later, the fund granted Italy a $530 million stand-by loan, thus opening the door to commercial credit markets. Within four years, Italy...