Word: tightly
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Despite the assurances of macho men such as Robert Kliesmet, the NRA is attempting to deregulate handguns to stimulate an otherwise tight firearms market. Their bill weakens a dozen provisions of the Gun Control Act of 1968, passed after the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Most important, it allows the sale of handguns to out-of-state residents, something presently illegal. Under this new law, someone desperate for a gun, or someone who wants to avoid having his record checked, can simply travel to another state...
...mere assurances by the White House that it will actively pursue negotiations will probably not suffice to wring an aid package out of Congress this time around. Though it appears likely that Congress will eventually vote to send some more assistance, it is almost certain that there will be tight strings on the money. The proposals that seem to attract the most congressional support call for withholding all or some aid--at least the money used for buying weapons--for several months while the Administration seeks a negotiated peace between the Sandinistas and the contras, as well as a treaty...
Until this year, the board was dominated by governors who supported Volcker's strategy of maintaining relatively tight credit to keep inflation at bay. The Volckerites held sway over two members appointed by President Reagan --Martin and Martha Seger--who often wanted to push the economy faster. But in January Reagan named two more members: Wayne Angell, a Kansas banker and economics professor, and Manuel Johnson, a former Assistant Treasury Secretary. That put the Reagan appointees, whom economists dubbed the "Gang of Four," in the majority...
...Arms of Mary, a sexual reminiscence that the brothers convert into a reverie of distant innocence and immediate longing. The album's standout is the title track, written by Don, a song of romantic loss and spiritual devastation that has at least a decade's worth of pain packed tight beneath its terse lyrics. Don, who uses the Random House Dictionary and a thesaurus when he writes, expresses grateful surprise when he is complimented on the song but agrees, after a while, "I guess that's life experience I'm writing from now. Born Yesterday took me three to four...
...deliberation. India has never officially confirmed what many have suspected all along: that the third-worst aviation accident in history, which took the lives of all 307 passengers and 22 crew members, was the result of a bomb planted in the aircraft's luggage compartment. In spite of their tight- lipped treatment of the case, investigators know much more than they are letting on. Or at least so says Canadian Journalist Salim Jiwa, 34, in a new book, The Death of Air India Flight...