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...that doesn't mean that Harvard, Brown and Princeton will be wrestling over common candidates. In fact, the applicant pool may widen as prominent educators recognize that so many openings are available...
...make progress, both sides must widen their focus and stop expending effort for symbolic victories on the fringes of the reproductive policy debate. Let us agree to work together, to lessen the number of unwanted pregnancies, to increase the percentage of adoptions and to put aside rhetoric to lower the number of abortions performed. Wouldn't that be a great accomplishment in this election year...
...what? Widen the track width? Lengthen the wheel base? Both rejected by Ford honchos as too time-consuming and expensive, what with a February 1990 production date to meet. Instead, they settled on tweaks: bringing the vehicle slightly closer to the ground, stiffening the front suspension springs - and recommending to customers that they let some air out of the tires, keeping them at 26 psi rather than Firestone's own target...
...pork, such seeming make-work did not go down easily. In June 1993, Roemer introduced an amendment to cut off station funding. The measure failed, but only by a whisker, 216 to 215. In a partisan Congress, a one-vote margin is a tenuous thing, and in order to widen the gap, NASA turned to a time-tested budgetary strategy, spreading the wealth...
...Putin left Moscow an hour before President Clinton to stake out the high ground on missile defense in Western Europe. Some of Washington's closest European allies had, last week, expressed grave misgivings about Clinton's proposed missile-defense system during the President's visit, and Putin moved to widen the gap by unveiling his own missile-defense proposals while on a visit to Italy and the Vatican. Putin proposed the joint development of a missile-defense scheme that would protect the U.S., Russia and all of Europe from attacks by "rogue states." But unlike Washington's plan to build...