Word: wide
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number of distortions about sociobiology that have gained wide currency have become too numerous to catalog, but three clarifications which must be made...
ACADEMIA SPREADS its clutches far and wide. The academic industry gets bigger and bigger, and people lose their jobs if they don't publish. Every field becomes fair prey for new books. But the academic jargon doesn't fit everything--there's something especially out of place in the sort of analytic attention which Maurice Yacowar gives to Woody Allen in his new book, Loser Takes All: The Comic Art of Woody Allen. The cult of Woody Allen would be inexplicable if he didn't touch on some particular mood special to his times--the anxious defeated mood...
...child that aspires to be a gas-guzzling American consumer, Schwartz has taken Detroit's downsizing to its extreme by creating a seven-foot-long, three-foot-wide gas-powered mini-Datsun 280-ZX. The $795 car has a single seat, a fiberglass body, and a four-cycle engine. It gets 65 miles to the gallon and reaches a top speed of 15 miles an hour...
Arnold finally emerged and they headed to the limo, Arnold a head taller and half again as wide as Hercules, with new long hair and blue Western boots made of something like armadillo skin. Hercules decided to start by talking about the book, Arnold's Bodyshaping for Women; it was safest (don't offend the Austrian Oak!) and besides, Hercules instantly liked Arnold, recognized the glint of Teutonic madness in his eyes...
...sees merit in the idea but thinks it falls too harshly on those who earn the least) to a constitutional limit on spending (only "as a last resort"). Connally favors faster write-offs for capital investment, proposes large new jolts of defense spending and wants deep, budget-wide cuts in just about everything else, basically by allowing attrition to whittle the federal payroll. To increase trade he, along with Reagan and Brown, calls for a North American common market. To spur savings Connally would create a "taxpayer's nest egg," in which people could invest...