Word: wide
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...franchise given one of his companies to charges that, while he was Governor, the state built roads for the benefit of his properties. Hickel's critics complain that he has been far too friendly with Alaska's oil operators to be given the Interior Secretary's wide regulatory powers over the entire $50 billion petroleum industry. Hickel has also alienated many Northeastern Senators by his opposition to a scheme for cutting fuel costs in New England by permitting imports of foreign oil through a free trade zone at Machiasport, Me. He has, however, promised to re-examine...
...airplane mishaps presently under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board, no fewer than six involve liners that crashed on approach to an airport. That is a considerably higher figure than the world wide incidence rate of 47%, and it has caused fresh alarm on the part of air safety experts about the adequacy of instrument-landing equipment at U.S. airports. Bad weather-or weather that required instrument landings-was a factor in at least four of the six approach crashes, and safety experts point out that less than a third of the nation's 623 commercial airports have...
Early in his tenure, this lack mattered little. After Kennedy's murder, the country needed a figure to rally round. Then it needed a responsible alternative to Goldwater. Johnson mistook happenstance for deep, wide support and even for the affection he craved. "I'm sure glad," he would say in those days, "we got rid of that image that nobody likes Lyndon...
Most important of all, this memorandum will challenge the Harvard Faculty to take a bold position in support of an unpopular but totally logical and just issue now confronting the academic community, nation-wide. It will call upon Harvard to demonstrate, positively, its traditional role of national leadership...
...Report's recommendations included a short-run exchange for next semester, permanent coed housing on a college-wide basis, and open inter-house as long as separate Harvard and Radcliffe dormitories exist...