Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lampoon: does not have tight deadline or rigid space requirements and can publish silly things like lists...
Crimson: has tight deadline and rigid space requirements and has to publish huge advertisements for "SHIV in Concert...
...government or keep its promises to curb the kind of corruption that helped finish off the Liberals. Mulroney, 47, has surrounded himself with friends chosen for loyalty rather than expertise. He has never developed or articulated a national agenda for Canada or shown himself to have a tight grip on the reins of government. Although Canada's growth rate of 3.3% for the past two years is second only to that of Japan, the government has problems. Time after time, major decisions, like a highly publicized promise to restructure Canada's tax system, have been delayed...
...ancillary service it often is. "Good college counseling begins to work in the seventh grade," insists Herbert Dalton Jr., an admissions officer at Vermont's Middlebury College and an NCCP director. But what about the money for enhanced efforts? Counseling jobs have been easy targets in times of tight budgets. Still, the Dallas school board is now studying ways to redirect funds to pay for additional staff in hopes of cutting the workload from 500 students per adviser to 250. But even there, the motive is less to get kids into college than to help get them through drug...
Despite a general mood of friendliness during the visit, there were tense moments. At one point some members on tight schedules, including Kissinger, were so disturbed by Soviet slowness in arranging promised meetings with Gorbachev and other leaders that they threatened to return home. That spurred a flurry of activity, and soon the program was full. The group eventually also saw Sakharov, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and Anatoli Dobrynin, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commission...