Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Egypt's economy was already strained when Sadat succeeded Gamal Abdel Nasser as President in 1970. Since then it has got worse. One of the problems is geographic: though vast in area, Egypt is mostly desert. Fully 96% of its population is jammed into a narrow green belt averaging seven miles in width and 500 miles long in the Nile Valley. Another problem is the population itself, which is growing at a million per year despite belated efforts to control...
...piers that had been empty for years. Buoys were being assembled, and pilot ships recaulked and overhauled. In the freshly painted warehouses, piles of new, sweet-smelling hemp rope rose like giant becalmed cobras in spirals to the ceilings. Canal pilots, the skilled men who guide ships through the narrow canal, were flocking back from all over the world. The Suez Canal, once the vital link between the West and the East, was being prepared for this week's gala reopening, eight years to the day after its closing...
...community has reason to be sensitive about offshore oil exploitation, it is Santa Barbara, Calif., scene of a disastrous oil spill in 1969. But last week the voters of Santa Barbara County, by a narrow 35,500 to 34,700, turned down a chance to keep oil development out of their area. In a referendum, they approved construction of a $30 million plant to process oil and natural gas from new offshore sources. An important factor in the vote was the threat by the plant's proponents that the project would be built anyway-in offshore waters beyond...
...remote past (when I was a Freshman), before TV and other advanced communications, Freshmen as a group were often extremely naive, narrow and immature. Segregation gave misery its desired company in the adjustment process. Doubtless this is still a bit true, but most certainly it has diminished, so the question is not "Should we segregate Sophomores?" but "Should we reduce the segregation of Freshmen...
...used to. You take the subway out to Shea, too, all right, the elevated IRT jammed with happy kids and determined teenagers, but when you get there you're half a green mile from the Unisphere, at the end of Flushing Meadow Park. Fenway's just the opposite--all narrow streets and factories and warehouses. But the kids were on the field. They eluded the cops for four, five minutes--it was beautiful just to watch--and the angry cops chased them over into the stands and up toward the exit signs. I think they got away...