Word: narrowing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...needs to stress his conservatism with law enforcement and fiscal issues instead of making narrow arguments about electability," Domke said...
...over-population in Core courses would be forgivable if the Core truly represented a "core" of knowledge that the University expected every student to learn. But it doesn't. The Core is littered with narrow, esoteric offerings such as "Monuments of Japan," "The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent: Art, Architecture and Ceremonial at the Ottoman Court," and "Beast Literature." Although these areas of scholarship are surely important in their own right, they defy any common notions of what a "core" education should comprise. And they make poor excuses for forcing hundreds of students to crowd into one class...
...barge loaded with 4.2 million gal. of home-heating oil was pulling away from a terminal near New York harbor last week when two huge explosions tore gaping holes in the hull. Nearly 200,000 gal. of fuel poured into the Arthur Kill, a narrow waterway between Staten Island and New Jersey. For the fourth time this year, a major spill threatened birds, turtles and other wildlife that dwell in the fragile wetlands...
Brookner, who is often compared with Henry James and Barbara Pym, has written better novels. Her best works juxtapose exquisitely etched character miniatures against a larger canvas. In Family and Friends (1985) and Latecomers (1989), her protagonists interact with small gestures in narrow worlds, but in the background World War II looms as a haunting menace. Set in the '60s and '70s, Lewis Percy is buffeted by the winds of fads. Tissy becomes a support-group feminist ("Last week they got to know their bodies. This week they're getting in touch with the pain"), and his boss...
...says. "Families stuck together." The absence of material possessions was an advantage, Carril believes. "It made us innovative, creative," he says. Sometimes there were no ball fields and few balls, which led Carril and his contemporaries to improvise games. One involved dodging thrown rubber balls in a narrow culvert. It was not for the slow of foot...