Word: swathe
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...million courtesy of the stimulus package to be spent by 2010 on "upgrading, modifying, or constructing" state and local fusion centers. The latest fusion center, the $21 million Port of Long Beach facility, opened last month. Staffed by local, state and federal officials, it sits on a small swath of land inside the nation's second largest port and utilizes state of the art surveillance technology, including cameras that can read a badge from two miles away. Every state but Idaho and Pennsylvania has at least one fusion center; Texas, for instance, has its Texas Intelligence Center within the Texas...
...design idiom called Brutalism, it ran more than half the length of a city block with hardly a grace note or welcoming gesture. To make matters worse, a heavy pedestrian bridge that connected it to the main Lincoln Center campus, across 65th Street, cast a broad swath of that street into permanent shadow...
Olympic glory aside, 2008 will be remembered in China as a year of massive natural disasters. Between the crippling ice storms that left millions stranded during the Chinese New Year holiday last January and February and the Sichuan earthquake in May that killed 88,000, catastrophes touched a wide swath of the country and caused nearly $200 billion in damage - more than four times the previous year...
...year-long Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship—which aims to help graduating seniors “discover and clarify the purpose of [one’s] life” through cultural immersion and field studies—the David Rockefeller grants are designed to sponsor a wider swath of programs, including internships and coursework studies at other universities. The Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship prohibits such academic endeavors and activities spent in the practice or furtherance of a professional career,” according to the fellowship’s Web site. “We run the gamut from...
...month. Indeed, because of choppy conditions, the assessment of the damage at one site, a mile offshore from the famed Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, was not possible until this week. It is now believed that a cable line from a tug boat, or possibly lobster traps, cut a swath estimated at about 200 yards long and 70 feet wide. A diver with the state's fish and wildlife conservation commission who surveyed the area Tuesday called it "as bad as it's been portrayed. It's extensive...