Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brokaw was neither stooge nor combatant. His tactic was to ask sharp, tight questions but rarely argue back. His concern, he says, was not to "showboat" himself and not to let Gorbachev filibuster with windy answers, though there was no way to stop him, says Brokaw, "short of reaching over and grabbing him by the tie, which I almost did." Gorbachev is unabashable, as seasoned politicians come to be, but as a salesman and defender of Communism, he was nowhere. He was more convincing on the question of how much he wants, and perhaps needs, to reduce the arms race...
Although University officials intially thought the probability of a Gorbachev visit high, the Soviet leader's tight schedule precluded the trip to Cambridge, Hunt said...
...most celebrated rock casualties, you could hear all of her history -- unspecific but unmistakable -- in her voice. No one can sing like Faithfull without deep scars. Not many can live as she has and survive. So she goes carefully now, learning how to hold tight and still let go. Listen to her latest Island album, Strange Weather, a critical favorite and a steady seller. That is evidence enough...
Greider documents the fact that the Federal Reserve usually pursues tight- money policies that favor the interests of rather than borrowers. He holds the Fed responsible for virtually every recession that has occurred in its 74 years of existence. Like many economists, Greider argues that the governors were to blame for the severity of the Great Depression of the 1930s...
...runs a tight meeting and gets things done," said Beaubien of Lashman. "He's very good at controlling things and is a lot stronger than I was." He also said that Lashman, who was not a regent until he was named chairman, handled the leadership transition very well...