Word: tightly
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...most of what the West can realistically do is smaller in scope and largely aimed at nudging the bloc toward market economies. The U.S. is prepared to help, but not with money. "It would be hard to move legislatively," said a top presidential aide, in an era of tight budgets. But, he added, "if they make the kind of changes they ought to make," the Administration would back Poland and Hungary with the International Monetary Fund, support extending trade waivers, increase high-level contacts and boost exchange programs. Ambassador Palmer recommends joint ventures and small loans directed to specific projects...
...This is the best team I've been on in my four years at Harvard," Konovalchik says. "It's a tight-knit team. We push each other to work harder and that enhanced the team's performance...
...black workers and 63% of all white workers will be in the middle class -- provided the economy expands at a healthy clip. If it does not, Landry warns, the expansion of the black middle class could come to a sudden halt. Says he: "During periods when the economy is tight, discrimination asserts itself...
Last night in the ECAC semifinals at Boston Garden, the Vermont hockey team capitalized the "t" in tough, tense and tight in the third period and crossed it in overtime...
...Greenspan battles inflation with a tight monetary policy, he will present the Administration with serious handicaps in meeting its fiscal goals. Any jump in borrowing rates would raise to even more astronomical levels the huge cost of bailing out the S & L industry. While the Administration put the total ten-year price tag at $90 billion when it announced its rescue plan last month, that forecast was swiftly raised to $126 billion. Last week Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady said the cost is now expected to reach $157 billion...