Tightened Quotes

You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we`ve been having in LA, which is fabulous.

It`s just something that tightened up on me and hasn`t let go. I`m hoping I can get someone to drop an elbow in there and loosen it up. I plan to be ready to on the seventh (Tuesday). I`ll save Bay from being in center field. I`m all fired up for this.

The implications are a bit worrying for spreads, particularly for the corporate market. The inversion means the market thinks the Fed has tightened too much and expects short-term rates to be cut by the Fed.

A lot of people were on us, so we tightened down the hatch. We said the guys in this locker room are the ones that are going to make it happen and will be the ones to get us back on course. We needed to stick together as a unit, and it paid off.

Congress has greatly tightened the loopholes terrorists can use to harm Americans. We need to do more. We need controls immediately on what forms of ID are adequate to board planes and enter secure sites.

I just put some heat on it and kept going. It tightened up, but in the playoffs, things like that happen. Everybody in the playoffs is playing with pain.

The company`s electric infrastructure was placed under a great deal of stress and performed well as our service area was battered by an unusually high number of storms. We also faced the challenge of buying reliable supplies of electricity and natural gas on behalf of our customers in a market where energy supplies tightened and prices across the U.S. nearly doubled as a result of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.