Word: narrowed
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...river, annually scoured by ice and high water, were just the way the wary cranes like them: free of predator-concealing vegetation. Today those same sandbars have developed into large islands overgrown with brush and cottonwood trees. Around them the water, only half a mile across, flows in narrow channels too deep for cranes. The result: where the birds used to spread out over 300 miles of river, they now congregate in one 80-mile stretch. As they crowd ever more densely together, thousands could be lost to disease...
...Candidate Kurt Steyrer, a onetime Health Minister, insist that the former U.N. chiefs wartime record should not be an election issue. In fact, the controversy has rallied support for Waldheim. Before the March disclosures that he had misrepresented his wartime service, most polls showed him trailing Steyrer by a narrow margin. After the allegations began to mushroom, polls put Waldheim 10 points ahead, but the gap has narrowed lately...
...Comptroller General of the U.S. would seem poor bait to draw a crowd. Yet the courtroom of the U.S. Supreme Court was packed last week with visitors who came to watch a tangled legal battle over just that issue, and with good reason. Rarely has such a narrow question held such wide implications for the conduct of Government. The real issue at hand was the budget-balancing scheme of the storied Gramm-Rudman Act. Whether the Comptroller is a servant of Congress or an impartial accountant is likely to be the point on which the court will decide...
...suspense should be over in little more than two months, by which time the Justices are expected to hand down their decision. Most court watchers expect that if the law is struck down, the grounds will be narrow. The precedents are so unclear, the implications of any broad new rule so uncharted, and popular or legal consensus on the wisest course so undeveloped that small, tentative steps appear more advisable than bold strides. --By Richard Lacayo. Reported by Anne Constable/Washington
...York and Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts hope to enhance their national prospects with big re-election wins. Yet their once secure colleague, William O'Neill of Connecticut, has been losing ground to charismatic Republican State Legislator Julie Belaga; the latest polls show O'Neill clinging to a narrow lead...