Word: tightly
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White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan was determined to keep the choice of Burger's successor under tight control. He was afraid that leaks would set judges and politicians scrambling to lobby Reagan for their favorite choices. Instead, Regan wanted to present Reagan with a very few carefully screened names...
...first a tight little screening committee of Regan, Meese and White House Counsel Peter Wallison considered recommending Justice Sandra Day O'Connor as the new chief. She was Reagan's sole high-court appointee, and to name a woman as the nation's top judge would be a political masterstroke. But O'Connor, now in her fifth year on the court, was deemed too inexperienced. Reagan's aides may have also been disturbed because she seemed to show mild symptoms of the Earl Warren syndrome, lately developing a disconcerting streak of independence. In the last year or so, for instance...
...Alabama, Democratic Congressman Richard Shelby, a conservative, won the Senate nomination resoundingly, and is expected to run a tight race against first-term Republican Jeremiah Denton. Alabama was also the stage for another historic primary, this one for the office occupied for 16 years by Governor George Wallace, who announced in April that he had "climbed my last political mountain." Having failed to win a majority, Wallace's Lieutenant Governor Bill Baxley, who was endorsed by blacks, teachers and labor unions, now faces a runoff later this month against his runner-up, conservative Attorney General Charles Graddick...
...hard-line anti-Soviet rhetoric as it is distrustful of the aristocracy, therefore came as a surprise to many. Carrington, in the words of Lowell House Government Tutor and Harkness Fellow Andrew Sullivan, "is the archetypal Tory `wet,'" the standard characterization for those in opposition to Thatcher's tight-fisted domestic policy...
...difference that Reagan's failure to attend will make, though, is in the Celebration's security budget. If Reagan had attended, Burr says, security would have been ultra tight, and spectators may have had to enter the Yard through metal detectors like those found in ariports. As it is, with Prince Charles and other dignitaries expected, security will be the most costly item in the 350th budget...