Word: narrow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recognized experts" in his complaint, the elected members wrote they could find no "requirement that any member of an ad hoc tenure review committee, much less the committee as a whole, be expert in the narrow subject-matter areas of the tenure candidate...
Their meeting isn't particularly cute--she just wanders into his shop on London's Portobello Road one day--and their attraction is distinctly muted. William's charm is of a musing, terribly English sort. He knows his place, which is deliberately narrow, unthreatening. She, in turn, has the wariness of the constantly stalked. She doesn't have a place. She is a bird of passage, always about to leave one movie location for the next. The film's comedy and crises arise out of their attempts to find a refuge where she can settle down and he can open...
...hardest part of the project, according to construction workers at the site, was working with the shape of the site. Shoehorning the building, which at 98,000 square feet is nearly twice the size of University Hall, into a narrow and non-square location called for a curious design...
...Yeltsin's tragedy has become Russia's. He is no longer a man of the people--certainly not in the political sense. His once broad-reaching vision, for a Russia where all people had a vote and a share in economic prosperity, has been replaced by a narrow and dangerous selfishness. Yeltsin had the political wiles to avoid being impeached this time, but whether he deserved to be impeached or not is still a question many Russians are unhappily discussing...
Like any job search, Harvard will begin by advertising the vacancy in appropriate publications. The Athletic Department will then form a selection committee to narrow the applicants and give Cleary a formal recommendation...