Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sometimes Broderick is a San Francisco newspaper columnist who roams the city looking for human-interest stories. His father, whose holdings include the paper, does not approve: "The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker -- you're very tight with that whole bunch of deadbeats now, aren't you?" Sometimes Jack is a Hollywood scriptwriter, and the bunch is livelier: Producer Marty Magnin, "reeking of Pinaud Lime Sec cologne . . . his shirt open four buttons down . . . beads of sweat around the plugs of his hair transplant"; Las Vegas Club Performer Buddy Seville, formerly Buddy Singapore and before that, Sandy Cairo; a collection...
...chief of staff Howard Baker, the veteran conciliator he summoned to help salvage his foundering Administration, is whether they can somehow redraw the sorry picture of the lack of presidential leadership that emerges from the report. It is a portrait all the more devastating for having been sketched with tight- lipped reluctance by three elder statesmen struggling to be both objective and polite. Reagan stands exposed as a President willfully ignorant of what his aides were doing, myopically unaware of the glaring contradictions between his public and secret policies, complacently dependent on advisers who never once, from start to finish...
Initially the First Lady considered Regan's tight management hierarchy a welcome change after the occasional disarray of the troika that ran the first- term White House. But she became annoyed when the overbearing chief of staff seemed to arrogate presidential decision-making responsibilities to himself during Reagan's convalescence from cancer surgery...
...aide in carrying out what were, after all, presidential policies. "Poindexter's own bent for operations aided and abetted rather than compensated for North," Commission Member Brent Scowcroft told TIME. "There's nothing wrong with having a 'cowboy' working for you, but you have to keep the reins tight...
...RESTRAINT shown by Harvard students during William Coors' recent visit to the University did not prove Harvard students' commitment to free speech. Tight security made any potential disruption of Coors' address impossible. Bags and jackets were searched by police, twenty Conservative Club marshalls stalked the hall and video cameras filmed the audience in order to intimidate would-be protesters. There is no way to know whether or not activists would have interfered with the address in the absence of these measures, but recent history suggests that they would have...