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And with 14 major championship titles, he was closing-in on the all-time record of 18 majors held by American great, Jack Nicklaus.

Tiger Woods Topped the Sports Headlines in 2010 2010

The CEC is mindful of the trade-offs some tire manufacturers make for achieving low rolling resistance vs. traction and tread-life,   but technology is at the crossroads where some tire manufacturers are closing-in on breaking down those compromises.

Fuel-efficient tire regulations and rolling-resistance ratings 2009

The CEC is mindful of the trade-offs some tire manufacturers make for achieving low rolling resistance vs. traction and tread-life, but technology is at the crossroads where some tire manufacturers are closing-in on breaking down those compromises.

Fuel-efficient tire regulations and rolling-resistance ratings 2009

Coloured dots will appear on the screen, surrounded by a rapidly closing-in circle.

Archive 2007-06-01 Greg Tannahill 2007

Coloured dots will appear on the screen, surrounded by a rapidly closing-in circle.

Elite Beat Agents Post-Mortem Greg Tannahill 2007

I happen to actually work with Wagner who published about relatively high CO2 levels around the “8.2 event”, the recent view on the issue is that ice cores underestimate the “high-variability signal” in the CO2 record, simply because closing-in gas bubbles takes 50-100 years and thus naturally smoothes the record.

Pliocene #1: North Greenland « Climate Audit 2005

On the main viewscreen, an image sprang into being: first the primary of the star system and a dim spark well out from it, then a series of rapidly closing-in “frames” of the spark, during which it enlarged from dust mote to tiny spangle to silver-blue cloud-swirled coin.

INTELLIVORE DIANE DUANE 2000

There must have been pressing reason for this deliberate and progressive closing-in!

The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito : 1964

Why men fight, even why boys fight -- all this had been a mystery which he must take on faith, with little help from the fisticuffs and brawls of school-days, or even from the gigantic, agonizing closing-in of whole peoples, now under way.

On the Stairs Henry B. Fuller

We will not dwell upon the mere formal movements that followed the "closing-in" on the smugglers.

The Dock Rats of New York Harlan Page Halsey