Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fans roared in the Rutgers Athletic Center, Performers Paul Simon, Melissa Manchester and the Not Ready for Prime Time Players helped raise money for former New York Knicks Basketball Star Bill Bradley in his uphill fight to unseat four-term Republican Senator Clifford Case. Singer Patti Smith, cavorting in tight silver pants, with an American flag draped over her shoulders, set her sights even higher. "Let's put a jock in the White House," she bellowed. "He's a smart...
Carter emphasized last week that he has "no intention" of getting involved militarily in Africa and that he will not ask Congress to repeal the Clark amendment. But because of the "very tight constraints" on his conduct of foreign policy, he has ordered the State Department to make a study of the statutes that restrict his power. He has not decided on a plan of action, but he obviously wants greater flexibility to provide economic and military aid when he thinks the need is there...
...hole in the wall so the hunger striker would observe the mad gluttony in the next stall and, sure enough, the power of suggestion usually worked. Once Jacobs determined from what he felt was a pained expression on a mare's face that her shoes were too tight, and another time he diagnosed a horse's problem as loneliness. Solution: find another lonely horse to share the stall. Jacobs and Bieber raced their horses often, or as one critic sniffed, they ran them "like a fleet of taxi cabs...
...Scarcely a single community does not feel the impact. In Bade County, Fla., a consortium led by Canada's Markborough Properties is spending $1 billion on an 18-year project to build an entire town, Villages of Homestead, that will add more than 14,000 homes to the tight south Florida market and provide 4,000 jobs. On South Carolina's Kiawah Island, the Kuwait Investment Co. is building a $500 million resort community. In New Orleans' old Vieux Carre district, an Iranian investment foundation is helping finance the development of a 23-acre complex of offices...
...Wages are going to be bid up, because in another month or two we will have run through all the available skilled people. The labor market is going to get tight, and we're going to be hiring people away from each other...