Word: narrow
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...radical a departure from traditional cola packaging as Generation X is from the Baby Boom. It features a deliberately rather plain font of "OK" against a white background with a narrow red border; a sloppily drawn oval-headed fellow looks out quizzically from in front of a wall and a little box of a house capped with an aerial. The rather casual shabbiness of "OK" is a shameless bit of pandering to the idea of Generation X; evidently we are so fed up with the kaleidescopic self-promotion and colorful hype of Pepsi and Coke that we are helplessly susceptible...
...Despite the sheer amount of creative writing that gets published at the college," the article reads, "there has been almost on discussion of this work in pages of student publications and very little informal discussion outside the narrow circles of workshop students and magazine staffs." Let Dartboard translate: although my friends and I have managed to hijack the Advocate and spread our mediocre juvenilia around campus, on one writes about us. Boo hoo. Up until now, we considered it useless to comment on an issue about which the campus feels roughly unanimous. And as for Mr. Canner's last point...
Almost at the same time, weeks after approving the long-delayed Brady Bill, Congress approved a ban on 19 different assault weapons in a narrow, unexpected victory. Just one day prior to the vote, Congressional supporters and opponents agreed that the ban would fall 20 voter short...
...that Perot, who built Electronic Data Systems into a multibillion-dollar enterprise before peddling it to GM, improved on the theories of two corporate legends who made salesmanship a near science: John Henry Patterson of National Cash Register and Thomas Watson of IBM. Perhaps so, but even by Wills' narrow definition of business leadership -- that it mostly has to do with selling -- someone like Bill Gates of Microsoft, who had much more originality than Perot and built a much more important company, might have been a stronger example of the corporate leader par excellence...
...city council voted down by a narrow margin last night an order calling for the resignation of Councillor William H. Walsh, who was convicted of 41 counts of bank fraud and the making false statement last month...