Word: narrow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heard something about the group [being formed], but we never knew the composition of it," William's said yesterday. "Our problem with the task force is that it's very, very narrow...
...year study found that 90% of foot-surgery patients are women and that most of their problems stem from wearing shoes that are, on average, two sizes too narrow. Researchers estimate that roomier shoes could cut $2 billion from the U.S. health-care bill...
Arguments like those described above could give natural law a bad name. That would be unfortunate. To reject unreasonably narrow and arbitrary strictures on sexuality should not lead us to embrace a completely "non-judgmental" attitude with respect to sexuality. Reasonable elements within the natural law tradition constitute good grounds for public measures to elevate and improve our sexual lives--both for our own good and the good of society...
...prisoners away, the streets erupted with gunfire. Somali fighters from all over Mogadishu ran to join the action; in the Bakhara market near the hotel, they set up barricades of burning tires and anything else flammable to block the Rangers' retreat. Rescue helicopters could not land in the narrow streets; the only way out was by ground. From that point on, Ranger Major David Stockwell, the U.N. military spokesman, said, "it sounded like the air was filled with angry hornets. The buzz and crack of small-arms fire was all around" the pinned-down Rangers, as two rescue columns fought...
...thinking but a woman's way of feeling," she says. "To my advantage, I have a great organizing talent. I can do a cost estimate, tell camera people what to do, organize film material. But this wish to be creative excludes many things. My view is very narrow," she explains, raising her hands in front of her face like the sides of the camera frame. Her vision was acute within that frame but myopic outside it, in the real Welt, where other Germans noticed things were going evil. If blinkered, though, she was not unique among artists in Germany, Japan...