Word: far-flung
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...James Goldsmith forced them to take another look by launching a surprise $21 billion hostile bid for B.A.T Industries (1988 revenues: $29 billion). Backed by investors Kerry Packer, the Australian industrialist, and Jacob Rothschild, the British financier, Goldsmith plans to break up the sprawling London-based conglomerate and "liberate" far-flung divisions that sell everything from cigarettes (Kool, Viceroy) to insurance in more than 40 countries...
...these trends continue, it could mean truce, then peace on these far-flung battlefields. Wars, including cold ones, don't end until people stop dying in them. By folding up the Reagan Doctrine, the U.S. can provide some cover for Moscow's retreat, perhaps helping end the expansionist phase in Soviet history. Such a strategy might even come to be called the Bush Doctrine...
...testimony, Major General Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez sat with his head bowed, absently fingering his uniform, his downcast eyes glazed with an expression that suggested dejection or resignation. He neither smiled when the tribunal of 47 generals and admirals praised his past acts of military valor in places as far-flung as Angola and Ethiopia nor frowned when it branded him a traitor and called for his execution. When Ochoa finally rose to speak, he denied none of the charges: consorting with international drug dealers, illicitly trafficking in everything from cocaine and diamonds to ivory and sugar, shaming the Cuban revolution...
Talbott is now one of what might be called Le Carre's People, an exclusive team of TIME correspondents the novelist has consulted through the years. Whenever he needs sophisticated guidance about the far-flung settings of his novels or the kind of characters who populate those worlds, Le Carre travels to the scene of intrigue, seeks out the best reporters he can find and interviews them thoroughly, taking voluminous longhand notes. "It has followed by chance that they are TIME people," he explains. "It's because TIME has the knack of hiring very good local people...
Other states are scrambling to enter the video age. Last January the Kentucky Education Network began beaming probability-and-statistics classes into 65 far-flung high schools. By September Virginia expects to have earth stations at every one of its 289 high schools. Private networks, such as the Texas-based TI-IN Network, go even further, sending instruction to more than 750 school districts in 29 states...