Word: tightest
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...does not ski the downhill, super-giant slalom or combined races, the other three ingredients in World Cup competition--he has made his two events a near monopoly. His heft helps, no doubt, but championship form comes more from his total focus on building speed and calculating the tightest turns around the gates. ``He doesn't make the mistakes he used to, like leaning back on his skis,'' says Roberto Della Torre, deputy editor of the Italian monthly Sciare. ``Compared with the competition, Tomba's skiing on another planet...
...guard posted outside can relay messages without having to open the front door. The Choices Women's Medical Center in New York City, which is already patrolled by armed guards, made plans to install a metal detector. Even Dr. George Tiller of Wichita, Kansas, who has practiced under the tightest security since he was shot by Rachelle Shannon in 1993, felt a new level of anxiety. "The turning point in our profession occurred last week," he said, "when innocent bystanders, as it were, were slaughtered...
States and localities are cracking down on smoking even more aggressively. In May, Maryland will institute the tightest statewide restrictions in the nation, banning smoking in virtually all workplaces, except in sealed, separately ventilated rooms. Rules go into effect in the state of Washington in September that will forbid smoking in all enclosed private and public offices. The city of Davis, California, has outlawed smoking in all offices, restaurants, outdoor cafes -- and even at the town's annual Fourth of July fireworks display. (The fireworks can smoke, but people can't.) The New Jersey Supreme Court, in a case that...
...Britain, with Europe's loosest labor laws and no minimum wage, shows that flexibility is no cure-all: its jobless rate of 10.3% is similar to Italy's, which has some of Europe's tightest worker protections. No one in Europe much admires the American model, which is equated with slums, homelessness, crime and drugs. As they see it, the U.S. job-creation machine of the 1980s produced millions of "working poor" in service jobs and cost low-skilled workers a 20% drop in the real wages. Europe, through its high minimum wages and other rules, saw a rise...
...second set included a sweet "Box of Rain," featuring some of the tightest four-part harmonies heard in recent memory as well as an excellent lead vocal by the seldom-heard bassist Phil Lesh. Another late gem was a soft, gentle version of "Black Peter...