Word: narrow
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...sounds true enough. Between these two worlds, separated only by a narrow strait, you have the biggest political, economic and social disparity imaginable. It's more than an island against-mainland matter. It's capitalism against communism. Freedom against control. And, above all, a population of 21 million against 1.2 billion. It would be no exaggeration for the mainlanders to claim, which some of them once did out of envy and hostility, that if each of the 1.2 billion residents in the People's Republic of China (PRC) spit into the Taiwan Strait, the island of Taiwan would be submerged...
With the appointment almost inevitable, the next fight on the panel will be over what the counsel will be allowed to investigate. Republicans want to keep the focus narrow, perhaps just on the possible tax-law violations involving the funding of the college course Gingrich taught. But the Democrats want a broad investigation of whether Gingrich broke federal laws and House rules as he mounted his long and deliberate campaign to become Speaker. Among the questions raised...
...trapped in the massive gridlock that formed along woefully inadequate evacuation routes. "I sat in traffic for hours and then gave up," says Brown. She finally drove off the highway and rode out the storm, stuck with her dog in a parking lot. Many who did get off the narrow barrier islands drove for hours--some for as many as 13 hours--looking for a dry place to spend the night...
...people in the student body feel that the administration has a very narrow approach to this issue in contrast to other top schools, such as Dartmouth, Columbia and the University of California at Berkeley, where ethnic studies is an established discipline," Gupta continued. "These schools, in addition to various others, are evidence enough that these scholars do exist and that these areas of study are well established...
PUCC's commitment to revitalizing the council as a student voice is commendable, but in its brief campaign it proved unable to articulate these interests outside of a fairly narrow political agenda. While the leadership took pains to argue for inclusion, PUCC's platform emphasizing "social responsibility," "unionized contractors for University projects," and "permanent faculty members in ...ethnic studies, gay studies, and labor economics," rang hollow before a more moderate student body...