Word: wide
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incidental: Islam is, as much as anything else, the repository for grievances, envies and hatreds that Third World have-nots harbor for the privileged of the globe. Islam gives cohesion to complaints about the injustices of the world. The Muslim tradition provides the language and symbolism to express a wide social message: it is not necessarily a religious phenomenon. It is not antiChristian. In fact, Muslims really regard modern Westerners as a species of pagan. Ironically, some of the resentment has been aroused by the emergence of oil-rich classes within the Islamic countries themselves. With that wealth came...
While there was wide agreement on the need for change and democratization, there was far less consensus on the timetable and extent of the reforms. Choi and other leaders of the ruling Democratic Republican Party are aiming at a transitional period of as long as two years. Yet opposition figures, among them New Democratic Party Leader Kim Young Sam, believe that the constitutional changes could be completed in only three months and a general election held by next fall. Other nettlesome questions concerned the role of the army: how soon it might be willing to lift martial law, for instance...
...swiftly on a dramatic policy reversal by the Israeli government. Jerusalem had suddenly released the popular mayor from prison and rescinded the expulsion order imposed on him for allegedly having spoken out in support of Palestinian terrorism. It was a dramatic finale to an embarrassing episode that had drawn wide international criticism of Israel and confused the Middle East peace process with Egypt. The Jerusalem Post hailed the freeing of Shaka'a as "a triumph for common sense...
Last week TWA got off the Airbus and decided instead to buy ten Boeing 767s at a cost of $500 million, with an option for ten more. TWA had difficulty choosing between the 767 and the A310 because the planes are so much alike: both are snub-nosed, wide-bodied, twin-engined, fuel-efficient craft. But the Boeing seats seven passengers abreast and the Airbus eight. The TWA order for 767s will probably grow to 40 or 45 by 1987. Total cost: $2 billion. Coming on top of orders from United, American and Delta, the TWA deal further assures Boeing...
...nature/nurture issue. More precisely, the genetic and developmental programming which is responsible for a given behavior can either be closed to or susceptible to environmental modification. This depends on the species and behavior under discussion. The complexity of the theoretical and empirical issues involved leads understandably to a wide spectrum of opinion within the field on certain questions, especially human behavior. Therefore, to assert that sociobiologists believe behavior is "genetic" and hence ineradicable or unmodifiable is an unscientific and unethical misrepresentation which plays into the hands of those who SFTP claims to fear most...