Word: broads
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...that Israel lives up to its commitments to guarantee the security of refugees in Lebanon and others in future arrangements for the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The renewed bloodshed in Lebanon, as President Reagan noted last week, proves the urgent need for a broad agreement. Unless all parties quickly acknowledge that need, however, the week's multiple tragedies could prove not merely a severe short-term setback to the tortuous search for peace in the Middle East but a long-term setback as well. -By George J. Church...
Melcher, 58, a veterinarian and ex-Congressman, argues that his contributors represent such a broad array of interests that it would be impossible to cater to them all, even if he were so inclined. He charges that Williams too is benefiting from an out-of-state political-action committee, if indirectly. The National Conservative Political Action Committee has targeted Melcher for defeat and has spent $200,000 in the Montana race...
Sting II came as a shock because the three employees dismissed last week were very highly placed in the company and had broad access to classified material. The accused: Lewis Eggebrecht, a senior engineer who was chief architect of the IBM personal computer, the company's fastest seller; Peter Stearns, another senior engineer, who headed an important product-development team; and William Erdman. an office-systems product-line manager...
...long the almost unchallenged champion of American computer makers. But as the machines have got smaller and cheaper in recent years, IBM has begun to face new competition from such firms as Digital Equipment Corp., Wang Laboratories and several Japanese companies. As a result, IBM has marketed a broad array of new products like the personal computer, cut prices when necessary and enlisted smaller firms to help write software for its processors...
...Avery's landscapes. Avery's influence on American abstract painting in the '50s and '60s, not only as a stylist but as a moral example of commitment and aesthetic ambition, was much greater than has usually been supposed. His way of rilling a canvas with broad fields of color "tuned" by dispersed accumulations of detail (a cluster of rocks, a flurry of waves, a knot of seaweed, a post or two) had everything to do with the compositional procedures of color-field painting in the '60s. So did his liking for dilute, discreetly modulated washes...