Word: narrowing
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...constituency at which [Nader's appeal] is aimed--largely college students--is narrow and, as a notoriously low turnout constituency, not the most promising base for party building," he wrote...
Discovering that he couldn't win the Republican nomination with such a narrow base, a startlingly different Steve Forbes suddenly appeared in the 2000 election. Now, Forbes mentioned faith and family values almost as often as the labyrinthine federal tax code. Assuming Forbes did not undergo a drastic personal metamorphosis in the last four years, he began to speak about religion solely to attract voters. Actions such as this deserve scorn and condemnation...
...said Quann. In her head she played out every stroke; she could feel the water in her fingers, taste it on her tongue, see every tile in the 50-m pool. "She's going down," Quann had taunted the dual Olympic champion before the Games - it was, indeed, a narrow vision splendid...
...Breyer also devoted a few words to the "competing considerations" of his colleagues: The appeals court "would likely narrow, focus and initially decide the legal issues now presented here," Breyer said. "It would thereby facilitate any later deliberations in this court." Breyer figured that the Supremes, with some additional briefs and oral arguments, could have handled the pruning itself; the other eight justices said no thanks...
Coontz doesn't believe in social time travel. She doesn't think we can go back to Leave It to Beaver after we've seen Once and Again. Unlike Wallerstein, whose investigation is deep but rather narrow (the families in her original study were all white, affluent residents of the same Northern California county, including non-working wives for whom divorce meant a huge upheaval), Coontz takes a lofty, long view of divorce. "In the 1940s the average marriage ended with the death of the spouse," Coontz says. "But life expectancy is greater today, and there is more potential...