Word: narrowings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tories win a narrow victory, but they intend to govern like a majority...
...narrow Tory margin suggested that Canadian voters were tired of Trudeau but uncertain about Clark's ability to handle the country's problems. The economy has gone slack; inflation is nearly 10%, and unemployment hovers...
...capital, where an 11 p.m. curfew is in effect, are patrolled by soldiers, and the country's few highways are under heavy guard; eight police checkpoints dot the 115-mile route from the Khyber Pass to Kabul. Where the rebellion really flourishes is in the rugged narrow canyons of rural Afghanistan. There a single rifleman can hold off an infantry battalion...
...substantive trade issues were resolved during the visit, but Ohira showed a conciliatory attitude that managed to ease, if not erase, the skepticism about Japan's intentions and the talk of economic retaliation. In his three-hour meeting with President Carter, Ohira pledged to push to narrow the trade gap between the two nations, noting that some improvement has already been made. Japan's trade surplus in the first three months of this year totaled $2.7 billion, vs. $6.7 billion in the same period last year. Generally Carter and Ohira hit it off fairly well. Honoring Ohira...
...turns out that most of the elementary structures are not quite so elementary: although the simplest of these, the "fold" catastrophe, may be depicted by a parabola, the complex "parabolic umbilic" model cannot be represented in fewer than six dimensions. In addition, some of the structures have such a narrow range of stable states that they are practically useless as real-life models...