Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...county fills up, it is developing some of the problems that the companies moved there to escape. Partly because of rising traffic congestion, Greenwich has placed tight limits on how much land can be zoned for business use, and Darien has imposed a moratorium on commercial construction...
...years ago, Writer-Director Hill was responsible for a nice, tight-mouthed action film called Hard Times, which featured Charles Bronson as a bare-knuckle fighter scrapping to stay alive in Depression America. It gave a good account of a man trapped in brutality by bitter circumstances, and Hill may well have had some thing equally deterministic in mind when he set out. to make this study of how cop and criminal mentalities begin to merge when both have too long inhabited the demimonde. But in the earlier movie, the Depression offered some explanation for Branson's hardness. Here...
...lurks the big shadow of the creaky but still powerful Big Red Machine in Cincinnati. The Reds have hung tight all season despite a below par year from one of baseball's alltime great pitchers, Tom Seaver, and injuries to former M.V.P.s, such as Catcher Johnny Bench and Second Baseman Joe Morgan. Last year's M.V.P., George Foster, is leading the league in RBls. The hottest news around Cincinnati lately has been Pete Rose's 44-game hitting streak, one of the major reasons why the Reds have clung so close to the lead. If Seaver should...
...troubles could be avoided, doctors point out, with some simple precautions. According to Dr. Dinesh Patel, co-director of Massachusetts General Hospital's Sports Medicine Clinic, "Sixty percent of athletic injuries could be prevented by training and warmup, another 20% by proper shoes and prescreening for tight joints or other abnormalities." Doctors also recommend a complete physical (including the treadmill stress test) for anyone over 35 before any form of exercise is begun. In selecting a sport, weight, body build and general flexibility must be considered. Fat people should forsake jogging in favor of sports like swimming that mitigate...
...newsmen and Soviet reporters (who have yet to report the big event in Moscow's Russian-language papers) looked on as the newlyweds departed. The wedding itself was attended by only eleven guests, none of whom were from the bride's family. Like other members of the tight-knit international shipping community, they are uncertain what impact the marriage will have on the $500 million Onassis fleet, in which Christina has a 48% interest. (The rest is held by the Monte Carlo-based Alexander Onassis Foundation, which is run by a troika of Ari's cronies.) About...