The timing should be as tight as possible.

ECONOMIST: Trade

But they do have a direct strategic interest in keeping the next election as tight as possible (leaving aside the baleful effect of the boundary changes on a number of their MPs) because it maximises their chance of a hung parliament in 2015 and leverage over the next government.

BBC: Reading the signs

We aim to have our food as tight and as fantastically worked as possible, the same as any other two-star restaurant.

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"The photo booth is always a draw, stuffing as many random people in a tight space as possible -- I think the record is seven -- and taking goofy group shots, " said Austin.

CNN: Goofing off on company time? Go for it

Because such companies have to cater for all possible tastes on a tight-as-possible budget, they take fewer risks.

BBC: Interactive arts: You, the audience, decide

For me, the most interesting part of the conversation came as I gave him one of my standard pieces of advice: exercise tight control over technology choice, and as little as possible over technology use.

FORBES: Control Technology Choice, Not Technology Use

He advised customers to sit tight and assured them that engineers were working as fast as possible.

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If you could, so we can get as many questions as possible in within the time frame we have, if when you ask questions, keep them tight.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

Unlike Apple, which places increasingly tight control over what people can put on iPads, Google seems to want as many outsiders as possible to put anything they want on Android, with the fastest possible velocity of successful apps moving through the system (love an app, and you can automatically Tweet a link to its app store location).

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