Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outside scholar of American history, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said he was surprised that Harvard's history department had agreed to offer a lifetime post to Gienapp,whose work the scholar called "narrow...
...value on Friedman's dispatches. His reporting from Lebanon won him a Pulitzer Prize, and his subsequent work in Israel won him another. Friedman, 36, is the Times's chief diplomatic correspondent in Washington. Freed from daily deadlines, he can look back on a period punctuated by excitement and narrow escapes. He had not been in Beirut long before the apartment house in which he was living was destroyed by a bomb; near the end of his stay in Jerusalem, as he was being driven to a farewell lunch by his wife, his car windshield was shattered by a thrown...
...seep under a boom and clog a skimmer. Finally, the devices are all but useless when confronted with a devastatingly large spill like the Valdez disaster. Once the oil had spread over the vast Prince William Sound, a boat towing a skimmer needed fully 14 hours to clear one narrow swath across the 35-mile-wide bay. The chemical dispersants often used in oil cleanups have problems too. They cannot function in calm water, and because they are toxic, they can seriously damage fish and wildlife...
...Supreme Court session which ended with the announcement of theWebster decision will go down in history as a marker of our times. The Court's decisions subtly chipped away at many of the gains made in the civil rights era--most obviously in its decisions to narrow the interpretation of affirmative action and, with its ruling in Webster, pave the way for state regulation of reproduction...
...said. His lawyer, David Cole, was slightly less inflammatory: "If free expression is to exist in this country, people must be as free to burn the flag as they are to wave it." Civil liberties advocates approved, though some were worried that the case had been decided by so narrow a margin. "James Madison, who wrote the First Amendment, would have his heart warmed by the decision," said David O'Brien, a professor of political science at the University of Virginia, "but he would have been appalled that it was a 5-to-4 vote...