Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard fell victim to an old cross country malady this afternoon. Although Baker and Hardin turned in respectable performances, Coach Bill McCurdy's forces lacked their usual depth. Instead of the tight bunch of earlier races, Harvard's third, fourth and fifth men straggled in out of the money...
Michigan law puts tight controls around the expansion of banks. There is an absolute ban on the bank holding companies that are familiar throughout the rest of the country; no bank can open a branch farther than 25 miles from its home office, or in a town where another bank is already established. The rules are so strict that the recent acquisitions made by a crew of young businessmen known as "the Parsons Group" seem a blatant invitation to the bank examiners. In the past three years, Donald H. Parsons, 37, and his 15 associates, have bought control of seven...
...Kremlin possess power that is potentially limitless and unrestrained in its exercise; they could blow the whistle on reform any day and reimpose at least some of the tight discipline of the past. Once fully launched, however, liberalization may not be so easy to stop. The vast reorganization of the Soviet economy and the increasing force of technology are producing a second revolution in the habits and outlook of the people that the Kremlin will be hard-pressed to reverse. If that revolution continues to work its influence, arousing among Russians a longing to join the modern world and giving...
...been easy. There have been the threats, the accusations, and the economic and social boycotts the Souther liberal has to face. "The wolf is always at the door," Smith's wife joked. The family did not pay its phone bills for six months. The campaign ran on a tight $4,000 budget. "I refused to let it come out of the grocery bill," Mrs. Smith said. It didn't. The money trickled in from numerous friends...
...claim that it assures representation of minority groups on the Council. It does; the present Council includes one Italian, one Jew, one Negro, and one Republican. However, the corollary of this representation of minority groups is that most Council candidates pitch their campaigns to a small, relatively restricted electorate. Tight control of a quota of "number ones" is the surest way to election...