Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often than not grounded in psychological confusion. For a time, it looked as if politics and psychology were inextricably mixed. It seems to some observers that as minority, particularly Black, students began to form organizations and clubs, that their insecurity and counterfidelity was reinforced by group, and indeed, very tight group, interaction. Much of the agony of conflict took the form of demands for more "relevance" in course work, an increase in minority student admissions to mitigate the loneliness and alienation, for law schools to take more public and publicized stands on civil rights and other social issues. As they...
Perkins said that "historically speaking" the creative writing program is "at a higher level of funding and staffing now than in the past." He added, however, that the department has a tight budget and could not allocate more funds to creative writing without detracting from some other area. "I hesitate to say we should do more, because then what should we do less of," Perkins said...
...really tight election, any last-minute gaffe by one candidate, any below-the-belt blow by another could prove decisive. When Ford ads portraying three citizens from Georgia criticizing Carter were attacked as unfair and negative, his managers stopped running them. Ford tried to capitalize on Carter's ill-advised statement that American troops should never be used to check any possible invasion of Yugoslavia by the Soviet Union in a post-Tito period. Carter had made the statement before, but none of the newsmen covering him had made a big issue of it until keen-witted Columnist Joseph Kraft...
There would be no revolutionary changes, no wrenching of Government. He might tinker a little bit, but it would be within the confines of a tight budget...
...haven't been this nervous since I took the bar exam," Mary Margaret Oliver, assistant professor of Law at Boston College, exclaimed last night as the tight race wore...