Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was romance, too, on the broad, open fields of Virginia. The story of flight was re-enacted with models -- correct down to the fabric, wires and rivets -- of those old, often ungainly aircraft that took the first pioneers aloft. Larry Kruse, a dean of Seward County Community College in Liberal, Kans., launched his replica of a 1911 Voisin into the fitful afternoon breezes. An almost perfect twelve grams of craftsmanship with a 13-in. wingspan, the plane is powered by a rubber-band motor turned 2,300 times. The Voisin bucked and churned, its tiny pusher propeller sending...
...sense, the interstate system's big, broad freeways invited today's congestion. When the interstates were built, 90% funded by the U.S. Government, most suburbs viewed them as all the highway they would ever need. Coalitions of environmentalists and taxpayers defeated plans for additional major arteries in San Francisco, Boston and other cities in the 1960s and '70s, when they would have been cheaper to build. "Highway expansion was perhaps the first victim of the not-in-my-backyard syndrome. Now we are paying the piper," says Jose Gomez-Ibanez, a professor of public policy and urban planning at Harvard...
Walesa risked his credibility by calling for an end to the strikes, which had attracted broad sympathy. But in return, Walesa obtained a pledge from Kiszczak that could revive the union leader's power and the diminishing influence of Solidarity: the regime agreed to discuss during the round-table talks lifting the ban on Solidarity, which Walesa founded in 1980 as the first independent trade union in the Communist bloc...
Sasso engineered Dukakis' comeback crusade as Governor in 1982, and the emotional bond between the totally dissimilar men remains strong. Though far from an articulate intellectual, Sasso has a gift for analytic thinking. A street kid from New Jersey, he is canny about people and comfortable with concepts and broad strategies. Through his two national campaigns, with Ted Kennedy and Geraldine Ferraro, he developed an army of political contacts, and he deals easily with politicians...
...East Germans have escaped over the Berlin Wall this year, six by swimming across the Spree. What made last week's exploit so remarkable is that Adryan and company plunged into the river at one of its most heavily guarded points, and in broad daylight. Perhaps, as they had hoped, the presence of so many Western tourists, including an alert British visitor who videotaped the entire escape, deterred the guards from shooting...