Word: narrowings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baathist junta of retired Major General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr has become increasingly nervous and repressive since it came to power last July. It began with a "policy of openness," pledged to stamp out corruption, release political prisoners and welcome exiles home. But the junta had too narrow a power base to tolerate such liberal measures. Last Dec. 3, when the Israelis shelled and bombed Iraqi forces in Jordan, the Al-Bakr regime was quick to blame its growing internal troubles on Israeli spies...
...normal babies, cranial sutures (the spaces between the bones that make up the skull) are wide at birth and gradually narrow over the years. By the end of childhood the sutures close. But when a stunted child is being treated for deprivation dwarfism-and grows rapidly as a result-the sutures tend to widen instead. Usually, this is an ominous sign of rising fluid pressure within the skull, perhaps from a brain tumor...
...gimmickry. The thirties room is the finest example of the exhibit's eclectic approach. Most of the pictures are blown-up and attached to sprawling cubes or precarious towers. The result is threatening and chaotic. Similarly, as we enter the fifties, we are forced to trudge slowly in a narrow queue. It is all more than a game. It is participation in a way of life...
...anti-ROTC arguments in the excellent study done by the Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee are imminently logical when evaluated in the narrow terms of academic freedom. The arguments of the anti-war, moralist group are even less practical and convincing in terms of the real-life world. Both arguments deal mostly with technicalities from a very narrow point of view rather than with the hard realities of life and the broad spectrum of our national existence...
Mesthene said in an interview this weekend that Harvard originally rejected an IBM grant to study the effects of automation on employment because it was too narrow in scope. When the study was changed to automation and society, the University agreed...