Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congress has yielded to the narrow interests on energy issues time and time again." He asked his listeners to lobby their Congressmen to support the windfall profits tax on oil companies...
...between Europeans and Arabs. Says an Israeli diplomat angrily: "We can't just brush aside the past." Bonn's view was that Jerusalem's reactions were largely emotional. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt is known to be impatient with Begin, whom he regards as holding too narrow and too rigid a position on the Palestinian question...
...freshman seminar booklet you received over the summer can be a shocker. You may have imagined narrow fields of expertise at Harvard, but the obscure snippets of academia which make up freshman seminar courses are probably your first encounter with just how erudite and moldy some professors...
Still, Congress seems to favor doing something for Chrysler, although $1 billion in tax refunds is distasteful to legislators who yearn to narrow the federal deficit. They may move instead for a loan guarantee. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long has pledged some aid for Chrysler. Says he: "It is better than letting the company fold. That would cost a lot of revenue and jobs." House Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman is unenthusiastic but promises to expedite whatever bailout measures the Carter Administration proposes...
...Narrow, single-interest groups are preventing the compromises that are essential to democracy, Wriston says. Nobody, not even the President, is empowered to make a tradeoff, to decide that the nation will incur some risks and costs and unpleasantness to build the productive base and acquire the energy that is needed to head off unemployment and prevent the lights from going...