Word: wide
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interview, Gaddafi went into an adjoining room where a wide-screen color television was still carrying the live broadcast from the White House. Sadat was speaking. The colonel's entourage stepped back respectfully, leaving Gaddafi to stand alone in the middle of the room. He watched and listened for a few moments, then turned and walked out. On his face was the same wan smile as there had been earlier when he was given the note. It was a smile that connoted grim satisfaction, the "I-told-you-so" smile of someone who has just witnessed an ugly scene...
Kenneth J. Arrow, Conan University professor and a Nobel prize winning economist, said in a letter last month that the Corporation's estimates of both the long and short term costs of divestiture are too high, although "there is necessarily a wide degree of uncertainty about predicting effects of any stock market transactions...
...There have been few times in the history of Harvard when such a wide segment of the community was galvanized in support of the rights of workers on campus," he added...
...this trilogy, history and value remain central themes. The first volume of the trilogy picks up where Liang Ch'i-ch'ao left off, taking "the problem of intellectual continuity," the persistence of ideas in changing contexts in space and time, to a society-wide level. No longer tied to the life of a single man, Levenson dispensed with conventions of narrative history, choosing instead to write three books as a web, jumping centuries and cultures to find the comparisons that would treat the same theme from a myriad of settings. From treating crises of intellectuals in an intellectual system...
...lieu of increased production in the sense U.N. officials advocate, Lappe and Collins advocate rural reform on a world-wide scale. In "What Does Food Self-Reliance Mean?" they propose conscious planning of economic self-reliance of the less developed world. Whether we accept this argument or not, the fact remains that a "food crisis" still "threatens millions." U.N. officials agree with Lappe and Collins: food is not getting to many, many people...