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    1. As for Allen, he left his job as he had occupied it: tight-lipped and declining all comment to the media.
    2. Daniel J. Travanti, no longer the tight-lipped Furillo of "Hill Street Blues," is entering a new phase in his campaign to breach "that mythical, mystical, invisible barrier" that separates television from movie actors.
    3. Israeli government officials were tight-lipped about the immigration of Albanian Jews, apparently fearful of harming the effort.
    4. Investigators were tight-lipped Friday on the cause of the crash.
    5. A Montreal businessman who knows him said Mr. Stolzenberg "has investments all over the place" but is very tight-lipped about his business activities.
    6. He was very tall and tight-lipped and didn't seem to mind. Someone told us that young women sometimes write their hotel telephone numbers on bits of paper and stick them in the guardsmen's belts.
    7. His accessibility is unusual in a country where most executives are tight-lipped and publicity shy.
    8. Within 20 bars the opening movement of Children's Corner had been fussed by unnecessary ritardandi applied, it appeared, by rote; 'Jimbo's Lullaby' was never allowed to linger, while 'Golliwog's Cakewalk' stayed tight-lipped to the end.
    9. Neither man would comment to reporters after the hour-and-a-half meeting, and Dukakis walked tight-lipped through a crush of reporters in the lobby.
    10. The securities firms, lawyers and consultants on the offering are tight-lipped about details.
    11. Hitherto its two acts have been regarded as a stark, tight-lipped prologue to the grand romantic action at Carthage.
    12. Iran's leaders are tight-lipped about whether they will help their old adversary Iraq break U.N. sanctions.
    13. For security reasons, Soviet officials have been tight-lipped about the exact number of troops who will begin the move north on Sunday.
    14. The tight-lipped Mr. Volcker, Mr. Roberts said, never discussed the matter in Mr. Roberts' presence during his tenure at the Fed.
    15. And the hopeful news of the review, confirmed by the usually tight-lipped Texas company, came on the eve of today's shareholder meeting.
    16. "It's a new labor movement for the '90s," quipped AFL-CIO spokesman Rex Hardesty, who has pushed for tight-lipped union officials to improve their dealings with reporters.
    17. Charlestown's residents have always been tight-lipped, but these days it's a matter of more than a community code of silence _ it's a code of fear.
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