Word: narrow
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According to Bell, the school's hiring criteriamaintain a "very narrow academic profile" thatexcludes worthy candidates from a broad range ofethnic and scholarly backgrounds...
...narrow majority of students polled by the campus newspaper objected to the four-year college proposal...
...Arrogant, upwardly mobile, narrow-minded, pseudo-intellectuals," says Stu, who comes to the Pit to spread the word of Jesus Christ...
...hang tough. Aside from differences on format, Bush is delaying in part to give his attacks on Clinton's draft record time to sink in with the public, putting Clinton on the defensive in the first debate while taking some pressure off the incumbent. But if Bush can narrow Clinton's edge in the polls quickly, officials say, he may not need to debate at all. Said a White House official last week: "If we were within 5 points, I'd say we shouldn't debate. But if we aren't, we may need to debate...
First promulgated by the Reagan administration in 1988, the gag rule was a not-so-disguised way for members of the religious right and other anti-abortion activists to inject their narrow views into government policies otherwise protected by Roe v. Wade. If family planning clinics can't even discuss abortion, gag rule proponents reason, fewer women will have abortions...