Word: narrowed
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...eyes were tinted red, and the lines beneath them were more pronounced than usual. As he strode toward the narrow lectern in the Executive Office Building, he forced only a slight smile. In rare defeats in the past Jimmy Carter has kept himself grimly in control. But as he announced Budget Director Bert Lance's resignation last week, Carter twice almost lost his composure. Voice choking, eyes misting with tears, the President paused, bit his lip and declared: "Bert Lance is my friend...
...Wyatt, vice president for administration and chairman of the eight-member search committee, said yesterday the group is still weighing the over 300 applications it has received for the job, and will probably not begin to narrow the field of candidates for at least another month...
...efforts to keep the economy expanding steadily and avoid inflation, the Federal Reserve Board strives to hold the annual increase in money supply with-in a narrow range-at present, 4% to 6½%. Yet for most of the past year, money growth has been riding a wild roller coaster-dropping all the way down to zero in one month, soaring to an annual rate of almost 20% in another. In the past few months, the money supply has been swelling at such a fevered rate as to cause anxiety even among powerful congressional Democrats, who usually favor an easy...
DIED. Colonel Jacob M. Arvey, 81, Chicago's Democratic boss in the late 1940s and kingmaker instrumental in Harry Truman's narrow 1948 presidential victory; after a series of heart attacks; in Chicago. The son of poor Russian Jewish immigrants, Arvey rang doorbells for ward politicians as a teen-ager while he worked his way through law school. He became the epitome of the back-room politician, and engineered many a political career, persuading an ex-assistant to the Secretary of the Navy named Adlai Stevenson to run for the governorship of Illinois and a University of Chicago...
Presuming Voyager 2 overcomes its troubles, the twin flight is a unique project. The Voyagers go elaborately equipped for sightseeing. They carry wide-and narrow-angle television cameras, cosmic ray detectors, magnetometers, infra-red spectrometers and radiometers, as well as instruments for detecting and recording ultraviolet radiation and radio emissions from the planets. They will, it is hoped, give man his closest look yet at Jupiter, a planet that contains more matter than all the other planets in the solar system put together. The pair will also devote a good deal of attention to four of Jupiter...