Word: wide
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...Further, there is an auto industry parallel to the current safety campaign as it seems to have affected convertible sales. During 1937-39 the industry became very safety conscious, practically discontinued convertible models. By 1940 the trend was broken and all makes were offering convertible models and the industry-wide proportion was at its 1936 rate. If history does repeat itself, we should see one more year of slackening interest in convertibles and then a sudden resurgence in their popularity...
Last week, after a five-day rainfall that saturated the so-called "Golden Heart of Alaska" with more than six inches of rain, the 200-ft.-wide Chena spilled disastrously over its banks and deluged Fairbanks. Floodwaters swirled through the state's second largest city at depths up to 9 ft., inundating cars, lapping at second-story windows, crumbling foundations. Before the rains abated toward week's end, some 15,000 of Fairbanks' 30,000 residents were homeless. At least seven, including two in the flooded village of Tok 200 miles to the southeast, were dead...
...hard to know and perhaps irrelevant to consider the extent to which the wide gap between the economic needs of Vietnam and its programs in the universities is due to the nation's preoccupaiton with war, the shortage of resources, the relative newness of its institutions, or to the academic customs that have been inherited by the country. Whatever its root causes, all Faculties except Medicine, Dentistry and Pedagogy have graduated less than five per cent of their total enrollment. The survey team interprets this as an indication of a waste of manpower, traceable in part to present university policies...
...creation of new programs in agriculture, engineering and business administration and the reordering of present university programs are recommended as a means of closing the wide gap that exists between the needs of Vietnam and the purposes manifested by public higher education. The careful selection of students for professional programs, the opportunity to select careers wisely, and the adjusting of numbers of students to program needs in the country are the outcomes expected of of the centralization of undergraduate study. Combined with attention to individual problems, the university should by these means reduce drastically the very high percentage of students...
Langsam, a 22-year-old veteran of two such congresses who hopes eventually to go into politics, no longer finds the experience "such a great thing." But most delegates say they are "exhilarated" and "educated" by the wide-ranging program offered here--even if they know that much of it, as one radical says, is only "sandbox politics...