Word: narrowing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Between 11:15 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., the number of people in the bar has swelled. Three women from Lesley College sit around one of the tables in the middle of the bar. Other students cram narrow passageways, sit along the bar and crowd the small tables on the opposite wall...
...form your own theories about life but sometimes I wonder. How can we expand our knowledge, become the culturally literate people we're supposed to be if we are unwilling to hear a new perspective? Are we so afraid of being taken out of the confines of our own narrow existences that we must unfairly silence and delegitimize the works of talented writers...
...Saddam there is little room betweenrestless motion and collapse. He is like a bicyclerider. Sitting on a very narrow base, Saddameither moves forward or he falls," she continues...
...also notices a barrel-shaped relocation trap on rubber wheels awaiting an especially pesky local bear. In the shower Meade hears a noise. The bear has walked into the dressing enclosure; he and the animal stare at each other for a tense moment until the bear leaves. In a narrow valley by a trout stream, Tim Anderson, 13, is asked to describe his favorite trekking moment. "The tall white trees ((aspens)) make me think of fresh air and a clean world," he says. At a lunch break, crusty former scoutmaster El Rey Ensch, 51, holds up his wrist for everyone...
...House Government Operations Committee blasts the IRS for high-level misconduct and cover-ups. "Crooks auditing crooks," charges committee chairman John Conyers Jr. of Michigan. Even worse, a second report by a Goldberg-picked panel of outside experts concludes that the commissioner's solutions to the crisis are "narrow" and deal mostly with "symptoms rather than root causes." Specifically, the panel found that many IRS criminal-investigation agents are not supervised, nor are they adequately trained in ethics. The report was sent to Goldberg on Oct. 26, but it has not been released to Congress or the public...