Word: swathes
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Northern Africa was a somewhat wetter place five millenniums ago, and the land was fertile in a broad swath on either side of the Nile. Many Egyptians still lived in huts made of papyrus or mud; raised wheat, barley and livestock; and paid homage to the local chiefs. Within just a few hundred years the Pharaoh Narmer would forge the entire area into the great Egyptian Empire. But recent scholarship shows that local chiefdoms were already coalescing into larger kingdoms, as they were in the neighboring land of Nubia, just upriver. As in Europe, a stable food supply created...
Does spending more on minority and low-income recruiting violate equity principles? Not nearly to the same extent as engaging in a race-based bidding war, since including both groups cuts a much larger swath through America's disadvantaged than simply including race does. And making it easier for groups to apply to Harvard should be distinguished from giving individuals large amounts of money to afford Harvard...
This kind of talk is commonplace in the wide swath of land Serb gunmen have seized in Bosnia by dispossessing local Muslims and Croats. Far from hiding the results of large-scale "ethnic cleansing," the Serbs seem to feel fully justified in taking over what is left behind. Like so many former Yugoslavs, Zamaklaar learned hatred -- not compassion -- from the past. Yet his flight from his family home in northwestern Bosnia, where Muslims have so far managed to hold a small pocket of territory, to the "cleansed" town of Kozarac has brought him no happiness...
Almost like a tornado, Andrew cut a 20-to-35-mile swath south of Miami that leveled entire city blocks and left residents without electricity, phones, drinkable water, sewage treatment, food or shelter. Armed troops patrolled the streets to stop looters, some of whom brought in rental trucks to haul away their booty. The response by state and federal government was slow and disjointed. But by week's end President Bush had ordered 14,400 troops into the disaster area with mobile kitchens, tents, electrical generators, water and blankets. Now hundreds of thousands of the newly homeless -- some sleeping...
...readers eventually grow up, and thus Gaines bears paternal responsibility for a large swath of pop culture from the past quarter-century. Virtually every stand-up comedy routine is a regurgitation of Dave Berg's Lighter Side strips. Underground artists from R. Crumb on have taken inspiration from Harvey Kurtzman (Gaines' editorial genius, who left after four years to launch a doomed satirical magazine for Hugh Hefner) and Mad's dense, rude cartoon style. Parodies of advertising and TV did not really exist before Mad invented the form. Ernie Kovacs, along with Bob and Ray, wrote free-lance for Gaines...