Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard is a tight-knit community, and students called as witnesses by the Ad Board should not have to face the anger of their roommates or the guys down the hall...
...nearness of the spectator fleet. A ragtag armada, 800 remarkable vessels ranging from the Achille Lauro to the Love Boat, tails along in a boiling wash. "They were a factor," insisted Conner, who called for more elbow room. In the second race the wind came up, and while tight quarters prompted a momentary Kookabura protest, Stars & Stripes ran away again and plainly seemed capable of doing it in any conditions...
...vouchers provide, even at a higher price. Says Apolonio Flores of the San Antonio Housing Authority: "Some of our people are saying that they always wanted their kids to go to a nicer school, to live closer to their parents." But the rental markets in some cities are so tight that vouchers are meaningless. New York City, for example, has 200,000 applicants waiting for public housing. When vouchers were offered to low-income families there, 62% were returned unused: even with federal assistance, the families still could not find decent, affordable places to live. "The voucher system would make...
...things right or you make no attempt is the way Stan sees the world. He rehearsed his band for ages before he took it public. And when he finally did, it blew the public's hat in the creek, which is to say the band cooked, dig? It was tight. And it is not a stretch to say Stan Spiro and the Townsmen Orchestra came on like a train, to liken them to the Chattanooga Choo Choo...
While Axlon is tight-lipped about its Tech Force robots, executives confirm that the toys are controlled by audio signals. Michael Hatcher, Axlon's senior product manager, imitates the sound by muttering a low-pitched beeping noise. The Tech Force robots will carry microprocessors that decode the signals from the sound track of the Tech Force cartoon program. Those beeps -- signifying such commands as forward, reverse, right and left -- will send the robots wheeling across the living-room floor. At the same time, children can control other robots by sending out audio commands from a small keyboard. That way youngsters...