Word: closer
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Wharton West brings the school closer to many of its alumni. In recent years, 20 percent of Wharton's graduating class has ended up in California, including as many as 30 percent of last year's graduates, Mittelstaedt said...
While there were once upwards of 7,000 Haitian immigrants in the area, Jeune says the number is closer to 5,000 today. He estimates that in the next five years, Cambridge will only have half the Haitian population it does today...
...Camp David has hardened considerably following 10 weeks of violence in which more than 300, mostly Palestinian, lives have been lost. And with the hawkish Benjamin Netanyahu enjoying a double-digit lead in opinion polls, Prime Minister Ehud Barak is unlikely to sweeten his offer. Netanyahu moved a step closer to overcoming legal obstacles to his candidacy Wednesday when Israel's parliament voted to allow any citizen to contest the special election triggered by Barak's resignation. The bill must pass two more votes to become law, and replace the current statute that restricts such an election to members...
...that might be looking at the glass as half empty. On the other side of the coin, Harvard played Bucknell down to the wire, in a game much closer than the final score indicates...
...Saturday Gore's contest of the election in Sauls' courtroom continued at a glacial pace, bogged down in statistics and chads, just as Bush's lawyers had hoped. Every delay brings them closer to Dec. 12, when the states must appoint electors to the Electoral College. Even if Sauls does rule in Gore's favor this week that some 14,000 ballots from heavily Democratic areas must be counted, the counters may not have enough time to get it done...