Word: wide
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Blue & Orange. South Africa has three capitals, one each in three of the four separate states that joined together in 1910. The administrative capital is Pretoria, a city of wide avenues and blue jacaranda blossoms in the onetime Boer Republic of the Transvaal. The Supreme Court is located in Bloemfontein, capital of the Orange Free State. Parliament meets in Cape Town, oldest city in the republic and home of most of its 1,747,000 "Coloreds" (mulattoes), who once enjoyed almost the same rights and privileges as the whites...
...five countries pinpointed eight main areas for joint industrial development (metallurgy, chemicals and petrochemicals, fertilizers, food, electronics, timber, cellulose and manufactured metal products) and four other areas for nonindustrial development (roads, communications, electric power and banking). As a hint of what will come at the bigger hemisphere-wide meeting, the five also requested more say in the Alliance for Progress, which marked its fifth anniversary last week. The fruits of the Bogotá meeting may not show up for months, until committees work out the details and actual coordination of the broader programs. Until then, the five could draw satisfaction...
...five airlines that normally carry 60% of the nation's air traffic. That 4.97%-a-year boost shattered what little was left of the President's 3.2%-a-year guideposts for restraining wage and price increases in the inflation-threatened U.S. economy. More ominously, the settlement opened wide the gate for other unions with 2,250,000 workers, including those in such key industries as electrical equipment, autos, trucking, clothing and rubber, to demand and get as good or better gains in contract negotiations scheduled between...
...These would be available to candidates for state-wide office, the General Court and for the Senate and House of Representatives. They would be graded in size in accordance with the importance and regional scope of the office and should be substantial -- perhaps $500,000 for a candidate for the governorship or Senate down to $1000 for a member of the Legislature...
...Harvard Square extension, as now planned, would run down Brattle St. past the Bennett St. repair yards and then continue for a short while down Mt. Auburn St. It would then make a wide loop that would bring it close to the Loeb and directly under Radcliffe Yard...