Word: wide-open
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cease-fire in Lebanon sometimes seems like wide-open civil war anywhere else. During the first half of the latest ten-day truce (the 24th in five months), more than 300 people were killed in fighting between the rival Maronite Christians and an alliance of Moslems, leftists and Palestinian fedayeen. That brought the death total to more than 13,000 as Lebanon this week marks the first anniversary of the outbreak of the civil...
...League, "is that Lee and I are the only ones who understand it." Next day Marvin Miller said he understood it and did not much like it, particularly the interim offer dealing with current contracts. The eight-team limit on bidding still left the players with less than the wide-open auction they had won from the arbitrator's ruling, said Miller, and he remained afraid that the players' association could be sued by individual members if it signed away that legal right. But many of the players were itchy. Player representatives from the teams reportedly voted...
...town remain the same as it was when I came here." Similarly, Petaluma, Calif., a small agricultural community that has grown by nearly 50% in the past eight years, recently won a legal battle over its fairly new policy of slow, planned growth instead of wide-open development...
Harvard students participated actively in the wide-open Massachusetts primary yesterday despite the plethora of candidates and general lack of excitement over the presidential race. A few committed students campaigned for one of the many candidates, but many more simply voted...
Soviet interest in Luxembourg is easily explained. Although not exactly a military power-its army numbers all of 500, including a 100-member band-the grand duchy belongs to NATO, and its officials are privy to many Western military secrets. The country is a wide-open highway into Belgium, France and West Germany-less than an hour's drive from U.S. bases in Germany and only two hours from NATO headquarters in Brussels. Most of Luxembourg's borders are untended even by customs officials, and its pine forests offer thousands of safe passageways to anyone who wants...