Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leading Gordon Humphrey by 59.5% to 30%, with no signs of movement toward the Republican. Humphrey won, 51% to 49%. Respected Pollster Peter Hart found that incumbent Democrat Dick Clark was leading his conservative Republican opponent Roger Jepsen 57% to 27% in October. "We did not have it tight, and we did not have Jepsen moving up," says Hart. Jepsen beat Clark, 52% to 48%. In Kansas, one survey had Democrat Bill Roy ahead of eventual Winner Nancy Landon Kassebaum; running for Governor of that state, Democrat John Carlin was behind in the polls but also emerged a winner...
...country's 10 million students and 400,000 teachers, as well as newspaper reporters in Tehran, were still out on strike in support of their demands for political reforms and an end to martial law and press censorship. Tehran's normally thriving bazaar was still locked up tight. The merchants had shuttered their shops three months ago out of respect for Ayatullah Khomeini, the exiled leader of Iran's 34 million Shi'ite Muslims and the spearhead of anti-Shah dissent. At his headquarters outside Paris, Khomeini repeated his do-or-die demands that the Shah...
...Western news organizations have so tight a strangle hold on international communications that the Third World simply cannot make itself heard, an imbalance that also purportedly perpetuates Western cultural domination...
...hard-bitten cynics of the exchange markets that the U.S. is prepared to follow a tough anti-inflation policy as long as may be necessary. Said Walter Seipp, vice president of the Westdeutsche Landesbank in Düsseldorf: "Everything depends on whether the U.S. Government will succeed with its very tight money policy in reducing the American inflation rate and improving its trade balance...
Fred Cordova pounced on it, and QB Brown got Harvard out from dangerous territory with two short runs and an 18-yd. pass to tight end Paul Sablock. Following a punt, Yale again fumbled, and safety McLeod fell on it at the Yale...