Word: narrowings
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...Admittedly, the relatively small sample size of this pilot study and the narrow range of respondents' fields makes generalizing the results tricky. But the fact that women are lagging behind in the languages - often considered academia's female-friendly fields - suggests that the fight to get more women established in male-dominated math and science might be even more of an uphill battle than we expected. According to the new study, whether women were single, married, divorced, with children or without, they lagged behind their male counterparts in every demographic. Married women took an average of 8.8 years to become...
...first African-American head of the EPA. Environmentalism is often thought of as a concern for a narrow, well-off elite. How do you want to change that perception and broaden the green tent...
...Catizone said that after students come to college from the “narrow societies” where they’ve grown up—whether in Manhattan or Nebraska—it is the beauty of a college education to give students’ the opportunity to cast off their past assumptions about the world, find a shared language, and flourish as human beings expanding their souls...
...that technology and innovation bring to all facets of life: carelessness. If you can find the answer by searching Google or glancing over a Wikipedia article, why read a book? If you can rely on a credible rating for a complex financial security, why do further research? In a narrow sense, the lack of context attendant in these bursts of data leads to small errors, and, on a broader scale, this limited scope contributes to major market failures...
...civilians who escaped on Monday were among over 150,000 trapped in the now narrow battle zone, according to the U.N.; the Sri Lankan government puts the figure at around 70,000. "We cannot give an exact figure, it is very difficult," Hulugalle says. The U.N. has warned that conditions are precarious within the zone, with civilians running short on safe drinking water and food, and getting caught in the crossfire...