Word: narrow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sharp says that while she prefers to work for nonprofit firms, she does not choose them based on any narrow agenda. She says only. "I want every company I work for to build for responsible action...
...marriage of the two industries so compelling is that each has something the other needs. The TV operators have built extensive networks of coaxial cable with enough information-carrying capacity (or bandwidth) to broadcast hundreds of TV channels simultaneously. The phone companies badly need that cable to replace their narrow copper wires, which can barely carry a single TV station. At the same time, phone companies have sophisticated switching and billing systems that the cable companies would otherwise have to build from scratch...
...fighters call this the "bicycle path," a narrow strip of bitterly contested ground cutting for nearly 150 miles through north central Bosnia to connect the Serb stronghold of Doboj to Serbia proper. Muslim and Croat lines ) pinch the corridor on both its eastern and western flanks. Daily shelling empties the town much of the day; by early afternoon the only sound on the main boulevard is the flapping of plastic sheets that cover shop windows shattered by artillery rounds. But when dusk closes in, fighters and young girls venture out to meet at a small park, whispering beneath the pine...
...everything in Zenica, and now we have nothing," Mikerevic says, seated in his family's small two-room apartment. It once belonged to Muslims, but Mikerevic does not want to know what happened to them. In the narrow living room filled by a sofa and a crib, an icon of the Virgin Mary now presides, next to a photo of an uncle who is with the military but hasn't been heard from in a year. Mikerevic rests his rifle in the crib next to the doll his wife found on the street...
...jokes about Senate minority leader Robert Dole and radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh that turned out not to be funny. The dinners are one of the few times that the permanent Washington establishment is primed to fawn over the President. But the range of acceptable presidential behavior is narrow, from self-deprecation to groveling, and by no means can the evening be used to settle scores -- even with the person who killed your stimulus package. The dinner produced three days of apologies and retractions and gave Dole the opportunity to charge that Clinton has a bunch of "sophomoric kids...