Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They were much tougher than we expected them to be," Co-Captain Katie McAnaney said. "We didn't expect it to be so tight...
...Schlafly has her way, that tight little clique--and Governor Dukakis--will stay right here in Massachusetts, as far away from Washington, D.C. as possible...
Schlesinger notes that Dukakis has criticized several strategic-weapons systems. So have I. So has Schlesinger. The question, especially in a time of tight defense budgets, is which strategic programs to pursue. The B-1 bomber and the Strategic Defense Initiative suffer from serious technical problems. To question these programs is evidence of Dukakis' good judgment. On the other hand, cruise missiles, the Stealth bomber and an SDI program limited to research and development make sense. Dukakis supports all three...
Oprah's closest friends are the people she works with: a tight-knit group of half a dozen or so producers and assistants, most of them young women in their late 20s (the majority white) who revere her as a combination sorority sister and guru. "I feel very destined to have met her," says Debra DeMaio, executive producer of the Oprah Winfrey Show. "I have pretty much unconditional love for her." Says Producer Mary Kay Clinton, who credits Oprah with helping her conquer her shyness: "I get a lot from her spiritually." Oprah will be maid of honor at Clinton...
...individual people. The field of potential suspects thereby doubles to include the noble clan. More important, what happened on a moonlit lawn, and why, becomes less a puzzle and more a metaphor for a social system on the brink of change. Throughout, Barnard's narrative never loses its tight focus on a domestic world as richly evoked as in anything by Galsworthy or Trollope...