Word: narrow
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...cruelest injustice, however, involves public transportation--because jobs in Erie County, as elsewhere around the country, have been migrating to the suburbs, where they often become inaccessible to inner-city blacks. Several new industrial parks north of Buffalo, for example, have roads that are too narrow and have no turnaround room for the cumbersome buses that ply big city routes. Kenneth Cowdery, who runs a job-training center in Buffalo, says he saw more than 100 jobs go unfilled last year because his mostly black clients couldn't find a way to get to work...
...very existence of Afro-American studies as a discipline is often misconstrued as a narrow "politics of identity." Yet Harvard's academics in this field address political and cultural issues that often resonate across racial lines. The broad significance of their work refutes the critics who claim that Afro-American studies is an unfortunate product of the trend towards political correctness...
Truth be told, the peasants' consciousness is narrow, hidebound and, from time to time, a big impediment to progress. Yet in China it still remains the dominant way of thinking. People have been used to it for thousands of years, and this phenomenon cannot easily be changed by less than 20 years of opening to the outside. To some extent, China's open-door policy even aggravates the worst part of the peasants' consciousness, for then they begin to see how unfair the reality is, and their world becomes more unbalanced...
...from. Obviously, competition would increase, and this is not usually an environment conducive to learning for the sheer value of learning--the university's highest function. Also, Harvard is not similar to high school, in which many disparate ability levels exist; here, all students fall within a very narrow band of ability--exceptional ability--and what is to differentiate one from another? Further, Harvard students deserve some kind of reward (a good grade) for their work, for however "average" it may be for Harvard, it certainly is not "average" for society...
OTTUMWA, IOWA: Watching his once-formidable lead narrow under the steady onslaught of Steve Forbes, Bob Dole has decided the high road is the best route in the final days before Monday's Iowa caucuses. Instead of attacking his opponents, Dole preached the virtues of experience and conservative leadership to a crowd of supporters in Ottumwa. On Thursday, his tracking polls showed his support hovering around 22 percent. A strong late push had Pat Buchanan tied with Steve Forbes at 16 percent, and Lamar Alexander was running fourth at 12. The big surprise of the week came from Buchanan...