Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...race against Malthus may be a tight one, but Goldberg said, "The human mind has always found the creativity to make the next breakthrough...
...crowd of 200 onlookers--many of whom dashed from Widener nearly in time to greet Charles on arrival at the GSD--got a close look at the extraordinarily tight security that blanketed the campus yesterday...
...novel in early 1946, but it ran away from him, swelling to hundreds of thousands of words. He tried over the years to cut it down and make it manageable, but it was still a mess when he died. An editor at Scribner's pruned the manuscript to a tight and coherent 65,000 words...
...Central Intelligence Agency, visited Damascus recently, but it was unclear whether this had anything to do with the priest's release. Jenco himself also spoke of the "religious factor," meaning the efforts of Terry Waite and other churchmen on behalf of the hostages. The indefatigable Waite, tight-lipped as always, said only that it was "not a coincidence" that he was in the Middle East at the time Jenco was freed, and revealed that he planned to return to Beirut shortly...
Carla Stough's parents were mighty proud when they learned she would graduate in the top ten of her high school class in Billsburg, Pa. But because money in the family is very tight (Carla's mother is a cook, and her father is disabled), there seemed no possibility that Carla could go on to a top college after graduation. In February, however, the Stoughs heard that she had qualified for special admission to selective Bard College in Annandale-on- Hudson, N.Y. Under the Bard plan, Carla will owe only the modest annual sum of $3,742, which she would...