Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Traditional scholarship is undeniably important, but there are certain absurdities involved in weighting publications (and often only publications that meet "scientific" journal standards) to the exclusion of any other factors. Teaching skill, of course, is also ruled out by this narrow criterion for appointment. It is unrealistic to expect that any one person could combine both unequalled research and a strong commitment to working with people in clinical situations...
...form a minority government if necessary. Prime Minister Pompideau, head of the Association for the Fifth Republic, and de Gaulle's man in parliament, should have no difficulty maintaining enough discipline in his party to keep the majority intact. He is a shrewd organizer, and the pressure of a narrow majority, should convince his followers to stay in line...
Less than a minute and a half remained in the period when Sobeski restored a narrow, B.U. lead from short range, after a good center by Bassi...
...freshman track team pulled out a narrow victory in the Big Three. They scored 58 1/2 points against Princeton's 58 and Yale's 20 1/2. Yale clobbered the swimming team, 83-11, winning every event...
...between these types, there are some constants: the Vietnamese seem to love their villages with an extraordinary passion. Again and again, they speak of the time when the trouble will end and they can go back to the elysium of such hamlets as Gia Hoi or Hoai Chau. So narrow and parochial is their vision that most do not know the name of their province chief or the mayor of the adjoining city. At their hesitant best, the peasants can identify only Ho Chi Minn and the late Ngo Dinh Diem. Few know why the French came and where...