Word: narrowed
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...that victims feel sick more often than their classmates do, are absent more often and tend to have lower grades. They are also more depressed and withdrawn--a natural reaction, says Nishina, but one that "can subsequently lead to more victimization." The studies also indicate that schools take too narrow a view of what constitutes bullying. Physical aggression is forbidden, as are such forms of verbal bullying as sexual harassment and racial slurs. But the rules are generally silent about less incendiary name calling. "You're probably not going to get into trouble if you call someone fat or stupid...
...opportunity to run a set play. Junior goalkeeper Lydia Gardner threw a shot toward the opposing goal and freshman Lauren Snyder managed to tip the ball past the Bears’ Anne Deggelman as time expired. The Crimson erupted in cheers, elated to have pulled out such a narrow victory—especially over Brown...
...film breaks down as all plot lines are hastily condensed to expedite narrative resolution in the last few, pyrotechnics powered sequences. Granted, most of the fights and explosions are impressively well-shot and sufficiently adrenaline-rush inducing. But in the end, there’s just one too many narrow escapes, fortuitous coincidences, and astounding leaps of logical assumption...
Other institutional support for social life, such as the UC’s funding of House Committees (HoCos), has fallen trap to the same narrow view. According to Dunster HoCo Co-Chair Andrew L. Kalloch ’06, in the past, the UC generously financed HoCo happy hours. “But you couldn’t get that $600 for a cookout or something,” he says. After HoCos asked for fewer restrictions, this semester’s bill gives them the right to do “whatever they want” with the money...
...have enough trouble walking down Cambridge’s narrow brick sidewalks. I am wildly uncoordinated, often stumbling over errantly laid bricks and occasionally slipping off the curb into oncoming traffic...