Word: narrowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will the growth of the Internet help. The narrow bandwidth of standard telephone lines serves as a democratizing bottleneck, rendering all processors, regardless of speed, equally slow. Why buy a souped-up superbox loaded with Pentium III power if the on-ramps to the information autobahn are perpetually jammed...
...Monica was able to defend herself without seeming defensive. This ability allowed her to appear poised, intelligent and charming--so much so that many people commented they could finally understand what the President saw in her. While I do not admire Monica for her self-centered, narrow view of the world, I do respect her courage to stand her own ground. SARA E. MELZER Los Angeles...
...PASS THE SALT Researchers reported last week that they may have found a gene that makes some African Americans more likely to suffer high blood pressure when they consume salt. The gene in question controls how much the blood vessels widen, which lowers blood pressure, or narrow, which raises blood pressure. As little as half a teaspoon of table salt can raise blood pressure levels five points (mm Hg) in those who have the gene...
When published aeronautical data turned out to be unreliable, the Wright brothers built their own wind tunnel to test airfoils and measure empirically how to lift a flying machine into the sky. They were the first to discover that a long, narrow wing shape was the ideal architecture of flight. They figured out how to move the vehicle freely, not just across land, but up and down on a cushion of air. They built a forward elevator to control the pitch of their craft as it nosed up and down. They fashioned a pair of twin rudders in back...
...beginning, the Watson and Crick story had traces of hubris. As told in Watson's classic memoir, The Double Helix, it was a tale of boundless ambition, impatience with authority and disdain, if not contempt, for received opinion. ("A goodly number of scientists," Watson explained, "are not only narrow-minded and dull but also just stupid.") Yet the Watson and Crick story is also one of sublime harmony, an example, as a colleague put it, of "that marvelous resonance between two minds--that high state in which 1 plus 1 does not equal 2 but more like...