Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Northern statesmen, with much justice, have regarded this rhetoric as a kind of impractical Robin Hoodism. But with no discernible justice, the industrial countries have kept a tight lid on their assistance to LDCs. Japan spends only 0.21% of its burgeoning G.N.P. on foreign aid, vs. a U.N. target of 0.7% for industrial nations; the U.S. figure is 0.27%. True, the U.S. carries the heaviest defense burden in the non-Communist world. But Congress has foolishly sought to forbid aid to countries producing goods that compete or even might compete with American products...
...hard to tell," Restic said "Take Russ Francis [the New England Patriots' tight end], for example. He was out of school for a year, he even dropped football, and still the Pats drafted him number...
...offer from a less financially troubled school, perhaps even Harvard, if President Bok lives up to his previous pledge to spend less than ten years as president. Yet Rosovsky has never publicly commented on the Yale offer, either to confirm or deny it, and he is similarly tight-lipped about any speculation on his future plans. He speaks almost wistfully of the freedom and independence of academic life--"the life of a professor is wonderful, and I really appreciate it"--and yet he makes no indication that he is ready to return to that life just yet. Nor does...
Preparations for Commencement have been marked by unusually tight security precautions this year, leading many observers to suspect that Khama will be joined by another world leader--possibly president of a key U.S. ally--on the dais Thursday...
...lasting surprise of the class, he escorted Feliz Frankfurter and his wife Marian to the front row in our room in Emerson Hall. The class size was limited to 24, so we were a tight, expectant little company. Copey explained that he got to know Frankfurter when the latter was a student at the Law School where, said Copey he has been pouring out words ever since. Today Felix had something special in his mind. Whereupon, for two hours Frankfurter spread before us the details of the "portentous case of Sacco-Vanzetti." He brought to that small room the full...