Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meaning circle to the right, Rob Roy nudges the flock of Cheviots our way. They have a tendency to fly apart and reconverge like a big blob of mercury dropped on the floor. But Rob Roy finally herds them through three gates, across a narrow bridge and into a pen. All the while an English collie, Rob's distant cousin, watches through the fence with no apparent interest. "The English collie has been ruined," declares MacGregor. "He's got a long pointy nose and no room for brains. You've got to have a dog with...
Says Califano: "I think we have reached the point where the greatest builder of bureaucracy in the world today is the U.S. Congress. And Congress is doing it because it wants to help the narrow-interest groups that feel they could not otherwise be protected...
...this office, she believes there "is no need to actively seek the kind of power" unions aim to provide. She personally feels "Harvard does well in the way it treats employees. The plusses of working in a place like this far outweigh the disadvantages." Gibson admits she has a narrow base from which to compare her own work situation to that of other Harvard employees, and says she feels "really far removed" from such workers as the carpenters who went on strike this march. "Our spheres of influence are totally separate. I don't know anything about their organization...
...Kennedy School offers the program because many top executives never update their training, or receive a narrow preparation that does not equip them with an understanding of the outlook of fellow policymakers, Johnston said...
...hand were cut, and he suffered a concussion and cracked ribs. He was out for a month. When he came back, he answered all the questions. Rounding the turn for home in his first return race, he drove a colt named Little Miracle?Affirmed's half brother?through a narrow opening between front runners and booted him home the winner by 1¼ lengths. He used horse balm to soothe his tight, sore right hand and its ugly crisscrossed scar and went about the business of riding. Says Trainer Tommy Kelly: "I don't think the kid has any fear...