Word: far-flung
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...grueling one-nighters, guitarist Pat Metheny still has the same easy small-town grin and messy mop of gopher brown hair seen on the back cover of his very first solo album; he also has a 15-month-old son, Nicolas Djakeem, on whom he dotes in between far-flung gigs. Twenty-five years and 25 albums after his hugely influential Bright Size Life helped nudge jazz and rock closer together, Metheny, 45, continues to play for delighted crowds everywhere from Istanbul to Albuquerque. "Sometimes I feel like my whole life has been one long world tour," he says wryly...
...task force's report and officials took care to deny that any management problems had been found. Instead, they blamed the institute's far-flung structure for a lack of communication between HIID staff and faculty and students in Cambridge...
...World Trade Organization, the United Nations and other such bodies into a genuine system of world governance. That's not a crazy thought, assuming technological evolution keeps following the path that biological evolution embarked on a few billion years ago--giving rise to larger and more elaborate and more far-flung non-zero-sum games featuring more and more players...
Needs for physical and electronic expansion could create a campus too far-flung--both geographically and virtually--to be a community. Harvard could grow too big for its own good in many ways...
...Given the fact that it's big and far-flung, it needs to be closely connected to the schools," Thompson says...