Word: tightness
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...reach the final destination that people on both sides say, 'All that, just for this? Forget it,' " Mekelberg says. "On the other hand, really big breakthroughs clearly aren't in the cards right now, so small steps are really the only choice you have. When things are this tight, small movement is big compared to no movement." (See pictures of Israeli soldiers sweeping into Gaza...
CONVENTIONAL (99% of all cattle) The vast majority of all American cattle start off on open ranges, but that's where the similarity to their organic cousins ends. They're shifted after a few months to the tight quarters of an industrial feedlot, to be fattened up as fast as possible...
Among Orlando's tight-knit theatrical community (which includes Disney World as well as other theme parks like Universal Orlando, SeaWorld Orlando and a long list of medieval, western and Arabian Nights dinner shows), performers were inclined to view the deaths as freak accidents rather than negligence by Disney. "It would actually be unfair to say that Disney doesn't know what they're doing and they're lax," says Breslauer, a former Disney actor...
...irony of condensing a million-word epic into a series of tweets - of which Sreedharan has so far posted 92 - is not lost on him. Nor is the challenge. "You want to write tight, but you don't want to write so tight that the meaning gets lost for people who're not familiar with the story," he says. "What I'm trying to do is to make sure there is enough drama in every twepisode, so to speak. There's a cliffhanger, wherever possible." (Read TIME's cover story, "How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live...
...brought him down to Sardinia's sandy shore one evening last week, though for once we kept him tight on his leash. He spent the two hours barking and digging a hole, probably in search of something to eat. Sitting under the stars, I began to wonder whether Totò would throw himself into the surf to save someone from drowning. Of course he'd risk it all for a castaway slice of lasagna. Or a flip-flop...