For the moment, the tension that seemed to position most everyone in the capital as a potential American enemy has ratcheted back, as the military standoffs in Falluja and Najaf have so far failed to widen into full fighting.
It is likely that the BJP won a few more votes than it did at the last Delhi election, in 2013, but Ms Bedi failed to widen its support to attract poorer residents, let alone those from minority religions.The election over, Mr Modi and the BJP should reflect on what went wrong.
The government's university access tsar has warned Oxford and Cambridge they risk losing their status as world-class universities if they fail to widen their entry to include more students from state schools.
Single stage and multi stage refrigeration systems fail to widen the gap between heat source and heat sink temperatures required in many industrial applications requiring simultaneous heating and cooling and cascaded systems appear to be the best alternative.
In the absence of espin, stereocilia fail to widen and degenerate soon after their initial formation, suggesting that espin is required for the lateral apposition of parallel actin bundles within stereocilia and their consequent increase in diameter (12, 13).
Interestingly, the het jerker mice with reduced levels of espin also show a diminution in width and a distal tapering of IHC stereocilia, but it does not appear to cause any significant hearing loss; in homozygous jerker mutants, however, the stereocilia of both IHCs and OHCs fail to widen and elongate and rapidly disappear within the first 2 weeks of life (12).
If Schleck felt he failed to properly widen his gap over Evans, he did not show it after Stage 19.
By focusing primarily on the country's growth, the World Bank and other international bodies failed to notice widening inequalities.
Many Americans, having lost faith in a government that has failed to address widening inequality, and in the policymakers and academics and journalists who have barely noticed it, see Trump as their deliverer.
The structural problems that he failed to address – widening inequality, sagging median incomes, a broken health- care system, crumbling infrastructure and global warming – loom that much larger in the US now, making the current crisis all the worse.
The consensual show-business culture that had nurtured his talent was fragmenting into generational conflict and niche audiences, and attempts to cast him in more adult roles that reflected the shifting mores of the times ("Boeing, Boeing," "Three on a Couch") failed to bridge the widening culture gap.
