Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some 20,000 key politicians and editors as a kind of campaign manifesto. "And if 'business' is understood as being something infinitely more than a collection of managers, including also investors, workers, consumers and farmers ?all of whom draw sustenance from the function of business?there is nothing narrow-minded about it. 'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the party of business...
...Korean ground forces in the Central Highlands, put it. Though the Reds have not mounted a single offensive operation of more than battalion size since Jan. 1, many officers in Saigon expect them to strike in considerable force some time before summer's end, quite possibly at the narrow waist of South Viet Nam in the Central Highlands area. "They're going to have to make some attempt because they badly need a victory," explained a U.S. officer in Saigon. "They need to wipe out an American battalion. But they realize the size of the force it would...
Defter Dissertations. A different attack on the problem is to reform the dissertation. Berkeley English Professor Charles Muscatine calls the present Ph.D. "narrow, specialized and constipated. What is needed is a more human and intelligent relationship between the student's training and his thesis." Many dissertations are tedious tomes, running up to a thousand pages and taking two or more years to write-and seemingly almost as long for an outsider to read...
...Should Work. Heart of the Gourdine generator is a pressurized furnace that spews a stream of hot gas and fly ash down a narrow tube. At the mouth of the tube, the bits of ash pass a "corona discharge" electrode, a needlepointed piece of metal that carries so high an electrical potential that it sprays the surrounding space with a supply of positive ions. Picked up by the passing ash as it is boosted along by the hot gas, those ions move down the tube creating, in effect, an electric current. The electrical resistance that develops is overcome...
Four freshman teams--baseball, track, Lacrosse and golf--all lost to Yale within the space of a week this season. And their narrow defeats to the Elis blotched four otherwise fine records...