Word: narrowingly
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...today Madanian receives an unusual offer. Right after opening, a man walks claiming to deal in old pharmacy equipment. He asks if there is anything he might buy but, when he looks up with interest at the tall ledger books lining the top of the narrow shop’s wall, Madanian stops him cold...
...thought experiment” (a real-world example considered in the abstract), then skirts the issue, then makes a revealing comment about why he has danced around the point: “I desperately want to avoid having the far-reaching implications of my argument projected onto the narrow and partisan ground of the debate over racial preferences...
When the 10 participants in FM’s panel discussion on Afro-American studies arrived at the dimly lit Adams House Conservatory, they found only a dark, rectangular wood table instead of a more metaphorically satisfying round setting. The table may have been narrow, but the discussion was broad. Each of the 10 people that crowded around the table’s misshapen edges came from a different point on the political spectrum. Ross Douthat, the stately editor of the Harvard Salient, sat straight and tall on one end of the table, while Gerard McGeary, the clean-cut Campus...
Those opposed to independence strongly identify themselves with Serbia. If there is a referendum and the pro-independence parties win by a narrow margin, as some opinion surveys suggest, the no campaigners might not accept the result. "We are a peaceful party," warns Dragan Koprivica, spokesman for the pro-Yugoslav Socialist People's Party of Montenegro, "but people are unpredictable...
Harvard did, however, manage to close its gap with 10th-place Bowdoin down to just 26.5 points. The Crimson has been creeping up on Bowdoin the entire year, going from 75 points behind in the first carnival to this weekend’s narrow margin...