Word: narrow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton is giving signs that he is not up to the task. His campaign focused almost solely on the economy, an understandable move considering the interests of the American people this year. Yet, so far his transition team also seems to be concentrating almost exclusively on the economy. This narrow focus must broaden when Gov. Bill Clinton assumes the presidency. Clinton must have the foresight to look up from his immediate needs to improve the economy, and see the opportunity that is dancing on the horizon, because it may not be there for long...
...cast falls into line with the director's narrow vision of the work. As a group they lack depth. The play begins with a scene between the father James Tyrone (Jack Aranson) and the mother Mary Cavan Tyrone (Patricia Conolly). The actors' forced voices and exaggerated facial expressions at first mislead the audience into thinking that they are watching a high-society comedy or drama instead of anything resembling O'Neill...
More specialties mean "very narrow specialists judging very broad specialists," says Hayes, and a reduction in the flow of ideas between areas like chemistry and other scientific fields...
...ritual animal sacrifice protected by the First Amendment? A recent case centering on this question gives the Supreme Court a new opportunity to re-evaluate its increasingly narrow-minded position on freedom of religion...
...presidential ballot is not really a national vote but a combination of 50 separate state elections. In one Gallup/CNN/USA Today tracking poll, Bush surged to a statistical tie, pulling 40% to Clinton's 41%. Other polls showed the Democrat's lead around seven points, but all indicated it was narrowing. Bush reacted by slamming harder than ever on "character" issues. Clinton hit back personally as he had not before, saying Bush was the one not worthy of trust. Bush's great problem, though, is that state-by-state surveys show Clinton with so big a lead in electoral votes that...