Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vance's trademark tool for efficiency is his check lists, usually scrawled on yellow legal paper. He confronts almost every meeting with a list of key questions, topics, problems, all in tight logical sequence. Andy Young recalls occasions when Vance has reached him at a party. "I'll pick up the phone and Cy will say, 'Andy, just a couple of points.' And, man, there they'll come?tick, tick, tick; one, two, three." Aides tell of meetings that Vance holds with CIA Director Stansfield Turner, who has a similar habit. "The two of them will checklist you into stupefaction...
...American Craig Jaeger controlled most of the first-half face-offs, and Harvard looked nervous and tight as the visitors coasted to a 5-0 lead. Middies Gordie Nelson and Terry Trusty shook Harvard out of its stagnating style of play with two picture-perfect long shots midway through the second quarter, but Cornell owned the rest of the opening half...
...their first contest of the tourney the As lost a tight 4-0 decision to Princeton, the eventual tournament champions...
Despite the double preparation of playing Tuesday night's Mass Maritime game under identical conditions (e.g. under the lights and on astro-turf) and eating Saturday afternoon's salami lunch at First's house, the Crimson was a little tight when they took to the turf Saturday night at historic Franklin Field...
Reduce the Budget. President Carter emptily claims that his budget for the next fiscal year is "tight," although it has soared since 1974 from less than $270 billion to more than $500 billion, and the planned deficit will run an inflationary $60 billion-plus for the second straight year. With the economy rising and unemployment falling, even Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal and the rest of Carter's closest economic advisers believe that the deficit should be contained. Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, one of the Senate's best economic thinkers, argues that the budget should be shrunk...