Word: swathe
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Environmentalists are hoping that Australia's largest temperate rain forest, the Tarkine, does not one day follow the fate of the aboriginal tribe after which it's named. The indigenous people who inhabited this northwestern swath of Tasmania for some 10,000 years were wiped out by conflict and disease in the wake of 19th century colonial settlement. Today, their former home?rich in ancient groves and pristine water courses?may be under threat from the island's logging industry, which intends to process the trees into wood chips and pulp. Granted, the Tarkine, spanning 450,000 hectares...
...promotion of unionized labor or links to abortion. Other funds just knock the worst offenders out of contention and still buy companies that violate stated principles--as long as other companies in the same industry do worse. But even socially responsible funds that weed out a broader swath of companies and corporate practices may wind up not meshing with investors' convictions when it comes down to the gritty details...
...Though a swath of regulations threatened to tone down the tailgate at the 121st playing of the Game this year, Harvard and Yale undergraduates and alumni still managed to enjoy themselves Saturday. Upperclass houses, final clubs, student organizations, sports teams, and fraternities and sororities set up booths across Ohiri field...
...fans of AP programs, who include parents, college-admissions officers and school administrators, as well as politicians on both sides of the aisle, who have called for additional funding to make AP courses more available to low-income students. A large selection of AP courses attended by a broad swath of the student body is widely seen as a measure of excellence for U.S. high schools and figures prominently in formulas that attempt to rank public high schools. The more active the AP program, the higher the rank and, often, the higher the school district's real estate values...
...Move to Allston: Allston is across the Charles River from Cambridge. It’s where much of the College’s athletics fields and buildings are situated. This large swath of land is due for a major overhaul and integration into the larger Harvard campus. Though you won’t be here to see it, plans tentatively include building eight new undergraduate houses on that side of town (and moving undergrads out of the Quad), transferring the locus of undergraduate life from the Yard to the Charles. Much has been made of the administration?...