Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deans meet that no one brings up two old dreamers, those roamers of open fields, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821, and Henry David Thoreau, Class of 1837. Writing of his fellow alumnus, Emerson observed, "He declined to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living well... He was therefore secure of his leisure...
...slung across the backrest. He appears completely relaxed, but when the question arrives--the one about whether he has the intellectual wherewithal to be President and whether it bothers him that this issue keeps being raised in the campaign--his body tenses. He turns his face forward, his eyes narrow, and he gazes out the windshield at the long road ahead. "You know," Bush says, his voice tinny but measured, "I don't really mind people picking on me. I know what I can do. I've never held myself out to be any great genius, but I'm plenty...
...finding that Microsoft is a monopoly was a legal no-brainer, once the court accepted the government's narrow definition of the relevant market: PC operating-systems software. If Microsoft--which owns more than 90% of that market--isn't a monopoly, then nobody is. Microsoft tried to argue that its Windows operating system was under constant threat and could be made obsolete at any moment. But the competitors it listed hardly seemed like giant killers. Upstart Linux, the open-source operating system that Microsoft speaks of so fearfully, currently runs less than 3% of all PCs. Even...
...Posting a league leading save percentage of .843 and winning Ivy League Player of Week honors in late September for her shutout performance against Yale and a narrow 2-1 loss to No. 1 Connecticut, Cowan seems a sure bet to win first team All-Ivy honors after her performance against Brown...
...vacationing New Yorkers Jerry Koenig and Mary Geissman jaunted in their posh gray sedan from the 400-year-old stone house overlooking the narrow paths of medieval Padua, Italy, to the modern ski condo in Asiago, Italy, they had time to reflect on how breathtaking the vineyard-dotted Po Valley is...and how the house, the condo and the car had cost them not a cent. All three came in exchange for use of their two-bedroom apartment in New York City...