Word: narrow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With 9:28 left, this new-found Crimson aggression was rewarded. Libby Eynon, Harvard's stand-out sophomore forward, took a pass from freshman forward Susan DeLellis on the left side of the goal and scored to narrow Princeton's lead...
...effect, Choi ignores standards of merit other than SAT scores and grades, in addition to misinterpreting the motive behind Harvard's recruitment policy. Choi thus gratuitously accepts the narrow standards of merit of the dominant culture, such as SAT scores and high grades. In doing so, Choi allows himself, as an Asian-American, to be used as a "model minority." He has bought into the stereotype that Asians, unlike Blacks or Hispanics, are docile, hard-working, law-abiding and respectful of educational and family institutions. He has succumbed to this colonization of the mind to the extent that he actually...
...narrow calculus of television ratings, the four Kennedy-Nixon debates were a glorious success. But for those who longed for something grander, for rhetoric that might rival the Lincoln-Douglas encounters of 1858, for crystal- clear arguments over relevant issues, for clues about potential for presidential leadership, those inaugural debates were a bitter disappointment. The tenor was set with the first reporter's question, a classic softball lobbed right at Senator Kennedy: "Why do you think people should vote for you rather than the Vice President...
After the 1960 debates, Douglass Cater of the Reporter magazine -- one of the panelists -- noted how quickly Kennedy and Nixon "mastered its special form of gamesmanship" this new political medium required. "No matter how narrow or broad the question," Cater wrote, "each of them extracted his last second of allotted image projection in making his response." If anything, the candidates have grown more adroit over the years. That is why these political quiz shows have come to resemble that other icon of the TV age -- the Super Bowl: overhyped, overcoached and ultimately underwhelming...
Workers at computer stations may position their hands over the keyboard with the sensitive wrist cocked upward or downward, compressing the tendons, ligaments and nerves that run through its narrow confines. People working with typewriters are more likely to hold their hands suspended straight forward, the wrists flat. Old-style typewriter keys also generally have a certain amount of spring, while computer keys often strike against a hard, unforgiving base. "These simple things sound trivial, but they are not when you're locked into one position, working all day long," says Marvin Dainoff, director of the Center for Ergonomic Research...