Word: narrowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main theme seemed to pervade the earlier parts of the semester: rebuilding student confidence in the council by providing much-needed student services without bothering with those nasty complicated political issues. To begin with, this answer was a narrow-minded attempt to solve an incorrectly defined problem. Last year's mishaps did not occur because the council was political, but because it was poorly managed and ill-informed...
...upper-level courses, says Daiute, professors often feel that the area of study is so narrow that only one textbook will do--their...
Ruben Blades is losing his patience. Dressed in a flashy magenta jacket and a black narrow-brimmed hat, he fidgets with his breakfast at Pluto's restaurant, a greasy spoon in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn. He is on his third cup of coffee when Spike Lee walks in and takes a seat at the counter. "Giant, see the paper?" Blades says, holding up a copy of the New York Post...
...These are very narrow roads," Whitelaw said. "They're trying the best they can to get to where it crashed. They're running up the road with stretchers and medical equipment." Most phone lines were down and power was cut off, he said...
...think that in terms of realizing the goals of Harvard, which I see as fostering excellence in education, Harvard traditionally has taken a somewhat narrow and politically biased view of what constitutes intellectually legitimate research. It doesn't include the Left," Lieberman says...