The 40-foot number was chosen because most are already narrower than that, and 25 feet was regarded by officials as a "workable width" for ground-floor banks.
That effect can also be deleterious for someone with heart disease, said Carl Foster, an exercise physiologist at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, because blood vessels leading to the heart are already narrowed, making it hard for blood to get in.
His parliamentary majority, which was already narrow, grew slimmer Tuesday with resignations, while calls for a national unity government are mounting.
Although extreme internalists advocate narrow content, they also hold that ordinary content is already narrow, so that we do not need a special or technical notion of narrow content.
Indeed, that's partly why the pipeline for additional solar projects is already narrowing in California.
"It's already narrowed down to Senator Kerry and myself," Mr. Edwards said.
The window of opportunity is already narrower for women on stage, as audiences and promoters come with prejudged notions about a woman's ability to be funny.
The gender gap in wages is already narrower in California than in the nation as a whole, but it's still significant; women there make eighty-four cents on the dollar.
Last week, the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a report of a study on whether estrogen taken alone or combined with the hormone methoxyprogesterone can retard heart disease in women whose arteries were already narrowing.
