Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inbreeding and self-satisfaction." Furthermore, Harvard's praiseworthy policy of encouraging alumni participation through elections, which serves to broaden the University's base for self-evaluation and policy making, is unwisely undercut by this year's political maneuvers, which defy that spirit of democracy. By pursuing this new and narrow course, Harvard is acting in exactly the provincial manner that it supposedly deplores...
Though the huge tankers would have to thread their way through narrow straits to reach Cherry Point, the Governor maintains that fears of an accident and oil spill are exaggerated. Says she: "There's nothing that tugs on the heartstrings like a few mallards with oil on their wings." Ray points out that some 13 million migratory birds are shot by hunters every year and notes that the number that die from oil spills is minute by comparison. Furthermore, the Governor claims that oil dumped into cold waters, like those of the sound, would cause almost no lasting damage...
...first win is always good," D'Agostino, who raised his record to 2-1, said after the match. Coach Johnny Lee said he was glad to see the matmen pull out a close victory, especially after the team's narrow defeats at the hands of Boston University and Springfield. The matmen now sport a 1-2 record. The next matches for the Crimson will be tomorrow night a' the IAB, when they host New Hampshire and Worcester Tech...
Debbie Sze's narrow escape from the agony of defeat came against Michelle Prettyman. Down 4-3, Sze tied the duel at 4-4 then earned the thrill of victory by parrying a Prettyman lunge, then counterattacking into the engineer's chest...
...predictably emanate from any highly industrial, interdependent society victimized by a time fetish. The linear consumption of time--which gave rise to society's belief in causality--is just the type of idea one would expect a society run by clocks to adopt. Modern society, Toffler contends, is quite narrow-minded in its insistence that every cause have an effect. And being the cocky, obstinate creatures we are, we cannot conceive of time being cyclical--that is, a cause having an effect which could, in turn, affect the original cause...