Word: broads
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...some cases, a nation's sovereignty over a body of water is indeed recognized by international agreement, provided that the mouth of the bay or gulf concerned is no wider than 24 miles; the mouth of the Gulf of Sidra is more than ten times as broad as that. No other nation, not even the Soviet Union, recognizes the Libyan claim...
...structure sits unobtrusively at one end of the Great Stone Dam, a 900-ft-long, 40-ft.-high granite block structure that spans the broad Merrimack River. When that old dam was built in 1848, it was the engineering marvel of its time and provided mechanical power for the surrounding textile mills of Lawrence. But the dam fell into relative disuse in the 1950s, when the city's thriving textile industry withered as factories moved south...
Tinkerbell's conservative sales approach, though, is now under increasing pressure from tough new competitors. Major toy manufacturers, including Mattel, Remco, Ideal, Hasbro and Mego, have introduced broad lines of make-believe makeup. Toy and Hobby World magazine lists Remco's Crayon Children's Play Cosmetics as currently the top-selling brand. Remco also tempts the tots with Blue Ice Eye Shadow and Sweetheart Pink Lip stick. Hasbro offers a Fresh 'n Fancy kit that allows the girls to mix their own makeup colors. The prices of these play cosmetics range from $1 for a small...
...smart," Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner) tells Ned at their first meeting. "I like that in a man." She does indeed; Matty is too smart for both of them. A detective friend of Ned's describes her as "one quick, smart broad" whose special gift is relentlessness. At the outset, Matty is trapped in comfortable domesticity, married to a wealthy land speculator (Richard Crenna) 20 years older than she. But her ambition is "to be rich and live in an exotic land." The insurance money that would be hers with her husband's death represents air fare to that...
Reagan may find that he is a tough act to follow. With clearly defined goals, broad support and his own timetable, he constructed a coalition that enacted his economic plan. The next tests will come on problems-foreign policy, defense, the environment, social issues-where the goals are harder to define, the timing can be determined by others and the players are even more intractable than the Democrats on Capitol Hill. Any half-decent playwright can turn out a good first act. After that, the characters and the events often have a way of getting out of hand...