Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fundamental change of the economic system we have. But I know the current government has been supported primarily by the large corporations. In my economic policy, I am going to concentrate on building up small and medium industries. It's very unfortunate that the government has had such tight control over every sector of industry. I am going to have an economy in which we have freedom of competition. We will go from a dictatorial economy to a free economy...
...Ollie was always on the edge and wound enormously tight all the time," said a former colleague. In June of last year, in a memo to Poindexter about the contras, North actually seemed lost, demoralized. "What we most need is to get the CIA re-engaged in this effort so that it can be better managed than it now is by one slightly confused Marine Lieut. Colonel . . . At this point I'm not sure who on our side knows what. Help." Yet North seemed aware of the consequences of his actions. "He said it often enough and to everybody around...
...urged Graham to stay away; indeed, the president of Graham's denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, is bypassing the event. But Graham may feel an obligation toward the Pope, who, as Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, permitted the evangelist to speak in a major Cracow church in 1978. Graham faces a tight schedule: a week after the ecumenical encounter, he will pay his first visit to China...
That was one reason why the group decided at the start to confer in total secrecy, with the windows of the Pennsylvania statehouse shut tight and sentries stationed at the doors. When one delegate carelessly dropped a copy of a convention document, Washington began scolding, "I must entreat the gentlemen to be more careful, lest our transactions get into the newspapers and disturb the public repose...
...Pakistan intensified. Now Pakistan insists that the U.S. is responsible for its defense. The Reagan Administration is concerned that if it turns its back on Islamabad, Zia might do the same to the rebels. Says Noor Husain, a veteran Pakistani defense analyst: "The U.S. has got itself in a tight corner...