Word: narrowing
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...fuel systems. While the scrutiny turned up no specific problems, the specter of the accident was enough to spur the company to implement numerous prophylactic measures - such as installing protective covering on wires and tools to suppress power surges - that would both serve to allay public fears and further narrow the possibilities for further disasters...
...color most onlookers skeptical. For one thing, the newcomers must vie for hard-core political junkies and insiders, who represent relatively few eyeballs. And this narrow slice of the market is being sought by such heavyweights as ABC, the Washington Post and CNN, each of which has a big Web presence, to say nothing of countless nonprofit sites that are chockablock with the skinny on your Representative's latest vote. "I liken the new sites to the specialty stores you see at Christmas," says Preston Dodd of Web watcher Jupiter Communications. "You wonder what they'll do after the elections...
...Ironically, one of the TV series Lieberman awarded the Silver Sewer last year, the outstanding Fox Hollywood satire "Action," made Lieberman's case far better than he does, scathingly portraying movie execs as venal, corrupt sleazebags. Like most moralists, of course, the senator was too narrow-minded to look past the fact that the show contained a bunch of dirty words. But one standout episode also contained a blistering rejoinder to Lieberman's kind of moralizing. The show's antihero, movie producer Peter Dragon, defends his sex-and- blood-soaked movies to a sanctimonious senator at a congressional hearing...
...those Americans, and those Jews, who consider Orthodoxy synonymous with narrow-mindedness and intolerance (paging Dr. Laura), Lieberman has a chance to set the record straight. If he manages to bridge the gulf between the ethnic and religious camps, Lieberman will ultimately be good for the Jews in more ways than one: Not only will he teach America what it is to be Jewish, he may teach Jews something about themselves...
After seeing a Sophie Marceau movie called Fanfan, I commented to my friend Maria how I wish it had come out in the U.S. "Christina," Maria began, "Americans are too narrow-minded to watch French films. They don't like things that are foreign. They can't appreciate them...