Word: far-flung
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...America empty of pocket but full of ambition. After working as a busboy in Washington, he opens a restaurant in Little Rock, Arkansas, befriends a future President of the U. S. and expands his business empire to the Far East. He becomes a top fund raiser for his old friend's party and then taps into a far-flung network of Buddhists for quick cash when the President gets into legal trouble. Eventually, he returns to Washington and earns the clout to move freely in and out of the White House, once bringing as his guest a major arms dealer...
...Middle East. "He managed to be an honest broker among the U.S. and the other major powers involved in Bosnia, even when they disagreed," says a U.S. official. As chief peacekeeper, Annan created a professional military-planning group credited with introducing cost efficiency to the U.N.'s far-flung troop deployments...
...problem of the future of Native Americans deserves such a far-flung approach, according to Nation Building lecturer William F. Nash, Bowditch professor of Central American and Mexican ethnology...
...watch for any lapses in editorial integrity (hence the chart). Our critics pan some Warner Bros. movies (the Batman series, I've noticed, has sometimes been brutalized) and praise others, purely as they see fit. The same is true for the music, TV shows and other productions of the far-flung divisions of Time Warner. If any readers or watchdog groups discern a pattern of dishonest judgments, they can (and should) flail...
...watch for any lapses in editorial integrity (hence the chart). Our critics pan some Warner Bros. movies (the Batman series, I've noticed, has sometimes been brutalized) and praise others, purely as they see fit. The same is true for the music, TV shows and other productions of the far-flung divisions of Time Warner. If any readers or watchdog groups discern a pattern of dishonest judgments, they can (and should) flail...