Word: tighter
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Still, some intelligent measures have been suggested in the wake of this disaster. Among them are increased counseling and mental health services in schools as well as tighter gun control laws...
...Issues like the Allston land grab and the Knafel Center are not going away anytime soon, as the Cambridge real estate market becomes tighter and tighter...
...Bradley supporters were out in strength at this weekend's convention, and some delegates said they thought Gore's 39-point lead in a March Washington Post/ABC News poll may be exaggerated. Even Gore's supporters in New Hampshire predicted the race would be much tighter by next February...
...practical industries in America. It turns out that bottled water, according to the group, is hardly any better than tap water--in fact, 17 percent of the samples tested by the group flunked the water industry's own purity standards. The group accompanied the report with a call for tighter FDA regulations on bottled water and Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J) said last Tuesday he would introduce a bill that would require bottled water to at least meet the same purity standards as tap water. Tighter regulation might be the least of the industry's problems, though: a separate...
...Milosevic's early goals when he came to power was to tighten his control over Kosovo. In 1989 he revoked the province's self-government--something it had enjoyed since 1974--and instead demanded local Albanians follow orders from Belgrade. Every year the noose got tighter, and by last year Kosovo was home to a nascent guerrilla movement. Occupying Serbs had become targets. On Feb. 28, 1998, an Albanian hit squad killed two Serbian policemen working in Kosovo. Milosevic, in a typical response, unleashed his security police and paramilitary units in a brutal reprisal that left 300 dead...