Word: narrow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often criticized for being reactive instead of proactive, for resorting to outmoded methods of career development rather than exploring innovative new techniques and for lacking a cohesive publicity campaign. In the future, OCS should expand the narrow focus of its Career Forum and devote more of its resources to campus-wide events that cater to demonstrated student interests. Career counselors should take a hint from the 600 students who attended the Media Fair and concentrate more of their energy on sponsoring similar events in the future...
...main disadvantage of public proceedings--the sullying of reputations of students embroiled in sensitive cases--could be resolved by moving cases within certain narrow and carefully-defined general areas (e.g., sexual assault) into private session. In general, though, students should be treated as adults and held accountable for their actions; paternalism with respect to disciplinary matters is not an effective teaching method in a college community...
...these interests are anything, they're wide-ranging. Usenet groups, as they're called, are named hierarchically, making it easy to find what you're interested in. Some are broad in nature, like rec.sport.basketball; others, like misc.health.therapy.occupational, are designed for more narrow interests. Harvard currently carries about 5,000 of them, with more added daily...
Most films, as they ravel their stories, narrow their focus to two or three central characters. The English Patient, though, expands its field of vision to embrace the impromptu communities around Almasy--notably Hana and her Sikh lover Kip (Naveen Andrews). They re-enact, with less melodrama, the arc of Almasy and Katharine's desperate affair. Almasy wants his love to flee in a plane; Kip sends Hana soaring on pulleys into the clerestory of the monastery chapel. Up there with the heavenly murals: Kip knows that's where this pensive angel belongs...
...women's plan was to start hard because once the pack reaches the hills of the Van Courtland course, the narrow path and the grueling incline dictate that it doesn't pay to save anything. The results of the Crimson effort were faster times for the entire field of runners...