Every year, the narrowing grows more severe until one day no blood can get through and the patient has a heart attack.
But this is no joke: The Republican Party's insistence that no real Republican would even consider raising taxes is a big reason that many people believe the president's panel will never agree by December on a bipartisan multiyear plan to narrow the growing gap between spending and revenues.
Members of the party's Central Committee are expected to endorse the free-market reforms that have transformed China into an economic powerhouse over the last decade, while taking initiatives to narrow the growing income gap between the prosperous cities and the impoverished countryside.
I guess my world back in the 60's and 70's was pretty narrow despite growing up in New York City and attending N.Y.U.
Investment in infrastructure, adequate training, an end to precarious work, and reforms such as social protection, minimum wages and collective bargaining, are concrete steps governments must take to narrow the growing gap between the haves and have-nots.
Some of the key pro-growth Democrats who helped shape former President Clinton's economic policies say that the same agenda is no longer sufficient to narrow the growing income gap in America, and that it needs to be adjusted to include a larger safety net, more restrictions on Wall Street and trade deals that provide more protections for American workers.
Many varieties or "races" differ in physical properties (Goodman and Brown 1988), but generally maize is a single-stalk plant that grows to approximately 8 feet tall with about 20 long, narrow leaves growing individually from nodes along the stalk (Kiesselbach 1999).
When Gilbert Gottfried finds something really funny — like one of his self-deprecating and willfully tasteless jokes — his narrow eyes grow even narrower, he lets out a gruff cackle and buries his face in the palm of his hand.
The demands of empire distracted attention from policies that could have narrowed the growing divisions between the social classes.
Both women and men, particularly as the wage gap has narrowed, are growing more comfortable with the possibility that she is the higher earner, sociologists say.
