Word: narrowing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...TIME/CNN poll of likely voters gave Bush a 2-point advantage, 47% to 45%, a statistical dead heat, after weeks when Gore looked as if he were cementing at least a narrow lead in most polls. In a race so tight, the debate was supposed to start shoving undecided voters into one camp or the other. "We thought it was going to come down to one debate," said retiring Ohio Republican John Kasich. "It turns out all three are going to be important...
...After you get out of here, everything will narrow you," he said. "Harvard opens doors for you. The downside is you get channeled into things way too early...
...appreciate FM's effort to sample several ethnicities, but (ignoring race for a moment) they are addressing a narrow cross-section of the social world here at Harvard. The article made a tacit assumption about the personalities of all these beautiful people: The Harvard ideal woman is a well-dressed socialite, and everyone here wants to be one. Reading the FM article, I had the same feeling I get every time I pick up a women's magazine like Cosmopolitan or Glamour: this has no relation to my life...
...abstract and philosophical level. However, the answers were not always illuminating, as Texas Gov. George W. Bush repeatedly praised the foreign policy decisions of the Clinton Administration. Bush noted his preference for using the military in war-fighting rather than "nation-building" activities and argued for a more narrow view of what is in the nation's interest, one that would exclude the campaigns in Haiti and Somalia...
...with the fact that, under that constitution, Milosevic still enjoys substantial political power by virtue of his dominant position in both the federal parliament and the in the all-important government of Serbia. Not only that, but plans to hold elections for the Serbian parliament in December may further narrow his own political base. Kostunica is the leader of a small party that has been somewhat peripheral among opposition groups in recent years, and the 15 parties in the coalition he led - which was based not on a policy consensus but simply on the need to oust Milosevic - must necessarily...