Word: narrow
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They prefer softer names, like Islamists or fundamentalists, but these were trained killers. They loaded their bomb on a motorcycle and slipped it between two parked cars on a narrow, tree-shaded street outside the American University campus in downtown Cairo. As Interior Minister Hassan al-Alfi's black Peugeot rolled past, the terrorists triggered the bomb, blasting ball bearings at the Minister's motorcade and passersby on the crowded sidewalk...
...basement of the Science Center, in a narrow room that looks like a set from the movie "War Games," operators are standing...
...increase to 4.3 cents per gal. -- $33 per year for an average driver -- rather than the larger, broader energy tax that Clinton and the House Democrats had wanted. Republicans are expected to oppose the plan solidly, but Democratic leaders feel they can hold ranks and win narrow passage in the full House and Senate this week...
Attacks on alleged political correctness are themselves often attempts to narrow the range of permissible debate and embrace the chic of victimization. In a May commencement speech about the new intolerance, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas complained that "a new brand of stereotypes and ad hominem assaults are surfacing across the nation's college campuses, in the national media, in Hollywood and among the . . . 'cultural elite' " aimed at "those who dare to disagree with the latest ideological fad." If anyone has ever actually prevented Thomas from expressing his views, I would like to hear of it. Vigorous dissent...
Call it flood politics and a united front. While the levee was finally broken by a narrow vote to approve a desperately needed $2.74 billion relief package, the point was well made. Senate Republicans are selflessly protecting the budget from a higher deficit, something which naturally took priority over those left without electricity, water and/or homes by the flood...