Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...notice to a tenant illegally using his rent-controlled apartment for commercial purposes. This summer, the Cambridge Rent Control Board found that HRE broke the law in the case of 1306 Mass. Ave. Once again, the University was proven guilty of keeping a low-income apartment off an already-tight housing market; in a city where the turnover rate is less than 2 percent annually...
...success, the high- performance ethic," says University of Massachusetts Professor Ralph Whitehead. "Pot bred passivity. On alcohol you can't perform well. You smell. People can tell when you've been drinking. But cocaine fits the new value system. It feeds it and confounds it. Young adults walk a tight line between high performance and self-indulgence, and cocaine puts the two together...
...public first noticed him as Ike's apple-cheeked grandson and occasional fishing partner, the boy whose name was given to the presidential retreat in Maryland. Years later, David Eisenhower surfaced as the husband of Julie Nixon and a member of the tight family circle that drew around his father-in-law during the siege of Watergate. Given the tempers of those times, the young man seemed hopelessly out of it: clean-cut, unashamed of his hitch as a Navy officer, and about as relevant to the presumptive radicalizing of America as Howdy Doody. When Nixon resigned in 1974, David...
...world of professional football, there was an outpouring of sympathy and support for Jerry Smith, 43, an All-Pro tight end with the Washington Redskins (1965-77), who on Tuesday became the first professional athlete to disclose publicly that he has AIDS. "I want people to know what I've been through, and how terrible this disease is," Smith told the Washington Post from his hospital bed in Silver Spring, Md. In Houston, officials proudly announced the opening of a private 150-bed hospital, the first devoted solely to AIDS patients. And in New York City, only mild rumblings greeted...
...countries in which they operate, DEA agents in Mexico work under tight legal constraints. The 30 or so agents, most of them Mexican Americans, are not allowed to make arrests, seize illicit drugs or even question suspects. Though formally attached to the U.S. embassy, they mainly work undercover with paid informers. Much of the time, they are relatively powerless. Says one enforcement officer: "Intelligence is the only game we play down here. For example, some Chicago families have direct links with the Durango Mafia. We listen to the street talk and occasionally we get a report that so many...