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...constituency at which [Nader's appeal] is aimed--largely college students--is narrow and, as a notoriously low turnout constituency, not the most promising base for party building," he wrote...
...said Quann. In her head she played out every stroke; she could feel the water in her fingers, taste it on her tongue, see every tile in the 50-m pool. "She's going down," Quann had taunted the dual Olympic champion before the Games - it was, indeed, a narrow vision splendid...
...Breyer also devoted a few words to the "competing considerations" of his colleagues: The appeals court "would likely narrow, focus and initially decide the legal issues now presented here," Breyer said. "It would thereby facilitate any later deliberations in this court." Breyer figured that the Supremes, with some additional briefs and oral arguments, could have handled the pruning itself; the other eight justices said no thanks...
Coontz doesn't believe in social time travel. She doesn't think we can go back to Leave It to Beaver after we've seen Once and Again. Unlike Wallerstein, whose investigation is deep but rather narrow (the families in her original study were all white, affluent residents of the same Northern California county, including non-working wives for whom divorce meant a huge upheaval), Coontz takes a lofty, long view of divorce. "In the 1940s the average marriage ended with the death of the spouse," Coontz says. "But life expectancy is greater today, and there is more potential...
...followed in selecting books for inclusion in the collection. Many libraries have very narrowly defined purposes, and books are only selected in those particular fields. Selection is also limited by funding and available shelf space, and often is age- and time-sensitive. For public schools, libraries have the very narrow function of having library collections that adequately support the curriculum...