Word: broads
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reverted areas represent a broad swath of the national territory, and their development could transform Panama. But there are more skeptics than optimists. Panama's dream is to become another Singapore--a prosperous banking, transportation and tourism hub exploiting to the fullest its ownership of one of the world's most important waterways. The alternate, nightmare vision, unfortunately, is of a nation handed a great resource that it then wastes through corruption and mismanagement...
Over the past five years, a new crop has sprouted across the broad, fertile plains of northern Germany. Sprinkled among the barns and silos are thousands of 100-ft.-tall towers topped by sleek, fiber-glass blades that whirl slowly in the breeze. Functioning as clean, trim powerhouses, these modern windmills turn even gentle currents of air into strong currents of electricity, energizing the region's businesses and homes without hurting the environment...
...value. The point is that most films offer something for the mind and for the adrenals, and they deserve to be seen by a wider audience than niche-marketing allows. Film has prodigious potential as a unifying medium, and as a mouthpiece to circulate all sorts of ideas across broad swaths of the public. That potential is undermined, and our intellectual and social development stunted, if we limit ourselves unneccessarily to seeing only certain kinds of movies
Danganan said one of his greatest fears is that Rawlins' campaign as president to increase the number of female and minority representatives will be discarded as a political issue too broad for the council's consideration...
Painting a picture of Uni-Lu duties in broad strokes, Seider describes the difference between the soup kitchens he's volunteered at--which just serve meals--and shelters like the student-run Uni-Lu, that offer the homeless a warm, safe haven from the streets of Cambridge...