Word: broads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There are people who will punch people fromtheir high school, but then there are also peoplewho will punch from the women they know throughthe [Institute of Politics] or their classes," shesays. "Obviously, people will punch who they know,but the punch tries to be as broad as possible...
...than last winter, while the north would be warmer and drier. That's just what happened: at one point this winter, it was snowing in Guadalajara, Mexico, while thermometers in Saskatchewan registered in the 50s. That doesn't mean the scientists are always right, of course. They can make broad-brush predictions of El Nino's effects without being able to forecast exactly what will happen in any given place. Some of the early prediction scenarios--no snow for the Olympic Winter Games at Nagano and monsoon failure in India--never materialized...
...many Americans who've never before set foot in Japan, Nagano may at first look like Atlanta with jet lag--an "industrial and technology-intensive city," as its brochures boast, larger than Newark, N.J., and lined along its broad boulevards with a cacophony of gas stations (called Apple), coffee shops (called Apple Grimm) and supermarkets (called Apple Land). There are seven Kentucky Fried Chicken parlors in Nagano, its literature attests, two Mister Donuts and a Denny...
...reasons I wanted to come to Harvard is to work with other scholars who are focusing on broad programs that have policy relevance," Wilson says...
These futuristic scenarios are not now part of the debate over human cloning, but they should be. Spurred by the fear that maverick physicist Richard Seed, or someone like him, will open a cloning clinic, lawmakers are rushing to enact broad restrictions against human cloning. To date, 19 European nations have signed an anticloning treaty. The Clinton Administration backs a proposal that would impose a five-year moratorium. House majority leader Dick Armey has thrown his weight behind a bill that would ban human cloning permanently, and at least 18 states are contemplating legislative action of their own. "This...