Word: widens
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Regardless, after all the money and attention spent on Couric, it will be much harder for a network exec to justify trying to widen the larger news audience. The journalistic lesson of Gibson's success and Couric's fizzling is that you can do well in the ratings with simple, unflashy news, and that's fine. But the business lesson is that trying to find new viewers--in the face of generational change, technological rivals and changing work and family schedules--to replace dying ones is pointless. TV-news analyst Andrew Tyndall, publisher of the Tyndall Report website, told...
...resentment stems from both a widespread feeling that Bush - who came to office pledging to be Latin America's mejor amigo - instead essentially abandoned the region when it refused to line up behind his Iraq invasion, and a just as pervasive belief that Washington-backed capitalist reforms have helped widen the region's gap between rich and poor, the world's worst. Add to that the U.S.'s perceived obsession with hemispheric campaigns like the drug war, border fences and free-trade agreements instead of initiatives to improve health care, schools and small business development, and it's no surprise...
...freshman parties are attended almost exclusively by, well, freshmen. Furthermore, the targeted party fund increases will only provide yet another opportunity for freshmen to remain isolated from the rest of the campus community. There is already remarkably little interaction between freshmen and older students. It seems unwise to further widen the gap between first-year students and the university as a whole by incentivizing freshmen to stay away from the houses. Outside the Yard’s walls, however, there are real opportunities to invigorate a decrepit social scene. Gatherings in upperclass houses, which were the original target...
...Iraq is shared only by the political leadership (parliamentary and insurgent) of the Sunni minority. Shi'ite and Kurdish leaders alike protested loudly when the U.S. arrested Iranian security officials in the Kurdish city of Erbil. A more aggressive U.S. stance against Iran on Iraqi soil is likely to widen the rift between Washington and the Iraqi government...
...recent experiments that claim to have observed innate or precocious social cognition skills in infants. His own experiments indicate that a baby's fascination with physically impossible events merely reflects a response to stimuli that are novel. Data from the eye tracker and the measurement of the pupils (which widen in response to arousal or interest) show that impossible events involving familiar objects are no more interesting than possible events involving novel objects. In other words, when Daniel has seen the red train come out of the tunnel green a few times, he gets as bored as when it stays...