Word: narrow
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Feaster scored her 1,000th career point this weekend at the Harvard Invitational, in Sunday's narrow win over Pepperdine...
...allegations made headlines around the country. "It took a lot of the power base away from my hat," he says, referring to the distinctive Smokey the Bear hat worn by training sergeants. "It used to be when they saw this hat, they knew that I was a straight-and-narrow type of person, and that I knew exactly what to do. But now there's a question in the privates' minds." Many new trainees do feel betrayed. "The drill sergeant tells you when to eat, when to wake--they feel like parents," says Salgador-Hill. "So when something like this...
Clinton thought for a moment. He couldn't narrow it down. "Burritos, deep-dish pizza, chicken sandwiches," he said finally...
...parents." The practical impact was to define a set of issues that Clinton could use to reach people with kids: smoking, education, flextime and family leave, and on and on through what became the values parade of 1996. "The truth was, 'family values' had been defined in an incredibly narrow way by the Republicans," says Penn. "It had been boiled down to a pro-life stance on choice and a position in favor of school prayer...
...House. In one way, that might be called a historic outcome: it was the first time in 68 years that the G.O.P. maintained control of both chambers through two straight elections. But though the margins remained in doubt late into the count, they appeared likely to be narrow enough to make "control" a bit of a misnomer. Probably the only sweeping conclusion the vote justified is that Americans by and large do not trust either party enough to give it full control of the government, or of Congress as a whole, or even of one chamber. Far from being disgusted...