Word: narrow
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Donovan predicted that 49 to 52 percent of thecity's 225,196 registered voters would go to thepolls in the election, which will narrow the racefor mayor to two candidates...
...Mederos followed the green car, which he pursued through several of Roxbury's narrow back streets. Three of the men in the car bailed out near the Bromley Health housing project, according to Lt. John F. Rooney...
Reed's goal is to give the movement a gentler, more catholic visage. He wants to make peace with mainstream Republicans while continuing the movement's war with secular liberals. The religious right must broaden its agenda, he believes, because "we have allowed ourselves to be ghettoized by a narrow band of issues like abortion, homosexual rights and prayer in school." Even the majority of Evangelicals, he argues, are more interested in taxes, crime and the quality of education. Becoming more ecumenical will entail making alliances of convenience with conventional conservatives who, for example, do not favor outlawing abortion. This...
...paper, what a handful of bargainers have written looks rather small, a narrow agreement on limited self-rule for the 770,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and 1 million more in the West Bank, starting in the oasis of Jericho. Yet the psychological breakthrough in recognizing each other's humanity is huge, the step neither Israelis nor Palestinians would take before. Making it work will take years to realize, but only a failure of the test they have set themselves can undo what has been done. The nagging question is whether these two can live with a victory...
...conspiracy too broadly. If she cannot prove all that is alleged, they think, she may wind up with fewer convictions than she might have won in a series of narrowly defined cases. As to Abdel Rahman, the feds may have figured they had nothing to lose. They had no narrow case against him, and if he is acquitted of the larger charges, they can resume deportation proceedings and "kick his butt out of the country," as an official puts...