Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very narrow straw-vote margin, the Faculty decided at a pre-Christmas meeting not to require Gen Ed courses. We hope this decision will be reversed tomorrow. There exists only two alternatives to the requirement, and both are unsatisfactory. First, the Faculty could permit totally free course selection. This system was tried under President Lowell and simply didn't work. Today, the system would be even less satisfactory. Increased competition for departmental honors would force many unsure students to take all or most of their courses in their field of concentration. In short, removing the burden of distribution will almost...
...Much of the redistributed wealth turns up for sale in the Forcella district, a teeming complex of narrow streets known locally as "the Big PX." In Forcella, portable radios sell at half the normal price, and bargain hunters can pick up new and still-crated U.S. washing machines, refrigerators, stoves, dryers, electric razors, and about any brand of cigarettes known to man. Where does it all come from? A shopkeeper explains: "That's why it's so cheap. One shouldn...
...threw a police-boat cordon around the sunken ship. When the Germans arrived, they found the freighter stripped clean, presumably by human chains of skindivers working at night. At the same time, the vicoli (back alleys) of Naples were ablaze with Oriental rugs hung out to dry and the narrow streets shaded by bolts of damp cloth stretched from window to win dow. The stalls of Forcella were glutted with wet Olivetti typewriters selling for as little...
...Chinese, he feels sure, are unlikely to enter the war. "Chinese and Communist Vietnamese interests are by no means identical." Besides, there are "insuperable logistic difficulties." The distance from the Chinese to the South Vietnamese border is 650 miles, and the route lies over rugged terrain through a narrow coastal strip that can be easily attacked from sea or air. Moreover, Chinese transport remains as shoddy as it was during the Korean War. Whenever Chinese troops moved more than 450 miles beyond their supply lines at the Yalu, they bogged down...
...asked as well to narrow your vision and your values to the immediate, physical future, and to forget about the long-range changes in culture and personality that blindly applied automation might cause. By vastly oversimplifying the case against automation, Asbell all but ruins the persuasiveness of his own reasoning. His optimism seems to be largely a function of his myopia...