Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cloud of alleged corruption that is now hovering over Bellotti carries a tragic irony. Bellotti, in his 1964 narrow loss to former Governor John A. Volpe, was the victim of vicious and apparently false innuendos concerning his ties to the underworld. The defeat for governor, which came when Bellotti was only 41 years old, marked the turning point of a meteoric rise to power in Massachusetts politics...
Einhorn is distressed by the narrow specialization that characterizes education here. Harvard students, he believes, are being programmed to assume elite roles, but not to develop innovative responses to crises...
Although Gaullists and Communists join forces to vote no, a narrow majority in the National Assembly approves Rocard's request to rule by decree for six months. Drastic reforms are instituted almost instantly. Rocard does not nationalize vast sectors of industry, as the 1972 Socialist-Communist "common program" calls for. Instead, all stock in private companies is converted to bonds, and shareholders are guaranteed 15% of profits; but corporate control passes to the workers. France's Paris-centered government is decentralized with the creation of new regional assemblies with broad local powers, including taxation. Welfare benefits are increased...
Thus lured, thousands of foreign tourists now set out for Andorra every weekend, causing monumental traffic jams along the narrow winding roads that lead to the tax haven. Once picturesque towns and villages have been despoiled by advertising. Posters of Johnnie Walker and the Marlboro man adorn the walls of roadside buildings, and billboards displaying the Ron Negrita girl under a palm tree contrast improbably with the splen did white peaks of the Pyrenees beyond. Cutting through the capital city is a gaudy strip of neon, glass and concrete, featuring gilt-balconied hotels, high-rise department stores...
...ways, our old clothes, our games, our silly picnics, and our drunkenness," thinks Natalie, Augden's wife, as she watches Lionel keeping his distance. But Lionel is the one who confronts the pains of mixed heritage. "It's the world of alleys and narrow lanes I'm scared of," he confesses, "anything outside the garden wall." In time he comes to sympathize with the vision of India's lost generation: "We are all refugees escaping from our tradition and yet, at the same time, carrying it on our backs...