Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...importance of yesterday's voting wasperhaps best illustrated by the contrast betweenDinkins' and Wilder's narrow victories in theirraces and the ease with which Detroit MayorColeman Young won election to a fifth term in themajority-Black city...
...narrow margin, Boston voters yesterday approved Mayor Raymond Flynn's plan to change the 13-member elected School Committee to a seven-member board appointed by the mayor. The margin...
Criticism directed at institutions like The Crimson for exclusivity and narrow-mindedness reflect uneasiness about unwarranted social identification. To know that fraternities deserve at least such scrutiny--and remember that they exist only for such social identification--one need simply look at the news. Reports of some fraternities' problems with sexual harassment, racial insensitivity, alcohol abuse, etc., are not unfounded...
...Though narrow in scope, the bill carried symbolic importance in the widening political struggle over the abortion issue, and proponents took their loss with a vow to keep the president's feet to the fire. But Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) called it "a decisive victory for the pro-life movement...
...exults owner Andy Ross, demonstrating the proper passion. "We carry Thomas Mann! We have all of Dickens!" Ross sued two mass-market % publishers who, he claimed, discriminated against him by giving unfair discounts to chains. He won an out-of-court settlement but still argues that chains, with their narrow stock of titles and widespread outlets, "limit the availability of ideas in our culture...