Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Actually, this year's varsity, which finished 3rd in IRA last June, made a better showing against powerful Penn than its length and a half loss indicates. It was a tight race until the Tiger boat caught a bad crab...
AFTER the election Mayor Lindsay had a city to govern; but he also had some 20,000 workers on his hands, now a tight and immensely devoted organization. The Mayor had to make a choice. He could let the group disband and work with a moribund Republican party during his administration, hoping that his charisma would draw his campaign workers back on to the 1969 bandwagon. But this would be a gamble against unfavorable odds. In four years time Lindsay would have made the enemies every incumbent makes and tarnished his shiny white armor. His only alternative was to nurse...
...silver cord has just now been replaced by the telephone wire"), Buswell likes the "frantic balance" that college has imposed on his life. "Harvard," he says, "is the kind of place where you feel guilty every time you play ping-pong." It is hectic, but when things get tight, he is renowned in the dorm for his ability to "wonk" (know spelled backward), or cram, for exams. Last week, preparing for back-to-back concerts in Hackensack, N.J., and Akron, James Oliver Buswell IV sighed sagely: "It will be refreshing to get back and be just another...
...their cheerful forecasts for a summer surge in the U.S. economy, Washington policymakers have counted on a strong rebound by the housing industry-the foremost victim of last year's tight money. Though housing has clearly begun to climb back from its worst slump in almost a decade, the revival so far has been a bit sluggish. Last week the Commerce Department reported that March housing starts showed a mere 1.7% gain from their February doldrums, to an annual rate of 1,171,000 new houses and apartments. At that pace, the industry was barely bettering its performance during...
...year low of 2,812 units last year, and rent increases of as much as 10% have become common when leases expire in apartment building units not subject to rent control. "By midyear," says President Irving Rose of Detroit-based Advance Mortgage Co., "the apartment market should be particularly tight in New York City, Detroit, San Francisco and San Jose, Calif...