Word: broader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...average took several dizzying downward steps last week, including a 76.93-point drop on Monday that ranked as the eighth largest one-day fall ever. For the week, it tumbled 143.74 points to close at 1766.74. The Dow is now just 28 points above its Oct. 19 nadir, and broader indexes of U.S. stocks are performing even worse. Shares on the American Exchange and over-the-counter market have fallen almost 20% below their Black Monday level...
...that is why the president insists that wehave to take a broader look and have to be able toconduct the tests necessary, to learn how todevelop this program...not at the end of seven to10 years but as we go along. And we believe thatit's perfectly consistent with the ABM treaty...
...decision stated that the "policy constitutes an excessive restraint on freedom of expression at MIT. This freedom is fundamental to the broader principal of academic freedom and cannot be duly abridged by the administration...
...poor (mainly black and Hispanic) urban neighborhoods -- is neither the cause nor an effect, exactly, of the historic renovation boom. But the two trends have abetted each other. The original '60s militants of the preservation movement were the shock troops of the upper middle class, and it was a broader swath of the same class who in the '70s made living amid urban antiquity seem both virtuous and stylish. Restored carriage houses and pressed-tin ceilings have seduced more children of the suburbs back to the city than mean, shiny apartment towers...
...help. In Natica Jackson, Michelle Pfeiffer plays a pampered screen beauty who falls for a married man. John O'Hara's tale has a bitter twist, and Pfeiffer adds her own tasty mix of sweetness and vinegar. A Table at Ciro's, from a Budd Schulberg story, resorts to broader caricature, as some familiar Hollywood types (washed-up director, naive ingenue, swaggering Latin lover) gather at a dinner hosted by a powerful studio mogul. But Darren McGavin plays the bigwig with such bemused dignity that the character seems brand...