Word: narrowed
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...difference between the Core and the General Education curriculum as planned is that the Core focuses on narrow disciplinary approaches to knowledge, whereas the General Education curriculum is focused on practical and relevant topics of interest, including ethics and social behavior,” said John M. Sheffield II ’09, a student on the General Education Standing Committee...
...League championship draws to a close, Harvard (2-15, 2-4 Ivy) suffered a narrow 4-3 loss at the hands of Brown (10-9, 2-5) at the Beren Tennis Center on Sunday, following a crushing 7-0 defeat against newly-minted champions Yale (11-8, 7-0) at New Haven on Friday. The results extend the Crimson’s losing streak against Ancient Eight teams to four games...
...relaunch his website within the next two months, adding many of the interactive features it lacks, including ones that will allow supporters to arrange house parties or write letters to the editor. The campaign is also banking on the historically superior volunteer efforts of the Republican National Committee to narrow the disparity in ground support. In 2004 the committee helped organize an estimated 1.4 million volunteers, many of whom responded to an online get-out-the-vote operation...
...precisely calculated risk he is taking on those fares, 15% less than competitors, is the only kind Branson, 57, has ever really taken. His autobiography reads like an adventurer's litany of near misses and narrow escapes from hot-air balloon crashes, storms at sea and unruly lovers. But Branson the accountant is unmistakable. He is methodical about risk and rigorously applies that principle to the diciest of industries, airlines. That's why, for example, Virgin America does not plan to have more than 100 planes--limiting itself in the first five years to the 30 largest U.S. cities, those...
...Zionist epic and then getting fed up with his job as a temp at a bank.However, the novel is burdened by a sense that nothing happens. It stagnates because the characters just aren’t truly relatable and can’t evoke sympathy. They are all narrow variations of the same solipsistic, narcissistic former athlete, taken with himself and caught up in his own musings. They constantly lose themselves in self-indulgent speculation on history and politics and never engage wholly in their emotion. There are no evident reasons, nothing rooted in the characters that spell...