Construction projects, often of enormous size and impact, are developer generated and initiated, within a narrow spectrum of private interest, and the bigger they are the better the city seems to like them.

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And of course the performances -- by Bogie, Bacall or even Alan Ladd -- were models of mysterious force within a narrow dramatic spectrum.

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One grim possibility is Mr Seselj and his cut-throats have been allowed to settle scores with the more enlightened figures in Serbia's narrow political spectrum.

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What we need is Congress to get to work, to agree to compromise, to agree to do the work of the American people, instead of satisfying some narrow slice of the political spectrum, so that we can reduce our deficit in a responsible way that does not heap the burden on single -- small segments of society.

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But for web designers on the wide end of the spectrum and app designers on the narrow, getting your head around all of the moving pieces that have to be accounted for between discrete views can be challenging.

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The small differences in price in this narrow range are far more profound than bigger jumps higher up the cost spectrum.

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The spectrum in question is for basic one-way paging which is called narrow-band paging.

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