Word: narrow
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Less homey and more corporate is the one national chain which has found a permanent home in the Square. Baskin-Robbins. This narrow shop on Mass. Ave near the Hong Kong restaurant, is close by for Union dorm residents...
...vision of a wide and diverse group has, over the years, clashed with other campus conservatives who envision the campus right not as a "big tent," but as a small core group of students dedicated to a single narrow slate of ideas...
...less competition for positions of rank and power. Occurrences of racism were negligible. "The same changes you notice in the rest of society have affected Harvard students...narcissism and almost neurotic idealism," says Whiteside. "There was far less social concern...political correctness was unthinkable...the politicals were a narrow cult, just as the jocks were...
...narrow but critical victory for President Clinton's economic plan, the House passed his deficit-reduction package of tax increases and spending cuts in a 219-213 vote. After frenzied eleventh-hour lobbying, the White House persuaded just enough Democrats to support the program, which is intended to reduce the deficit $500 billion over five years. The House was supposed to be the easy chamber for Clinton; the battle there suggests that the struggle for passage in the Senate may be all the more ferocious...
...Clinton's narrow victory is the only bright spot in a presidency that has been beset since its inception by miscalculations and self-inflicted wounds. Clinton, in fact, was still stumbling from the missteps of the preceding week. His balmy decision to have his hair trimmed on Air Force One by a Beverly Hills coiffeur put the presidential scalp in national headlines, while a cronyism scandal in the White House travel office pitted Clinton's staff against the Justice Department. Later Secretary of State Warren Christopher had to telephone news organizations to contradict a speech by a top aide...