Word: wide
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perception of Carter as irresolute is hardly news to the White House. A group of outside political consultants who assembled there not long ago delivered a litany of political problems affecting a wide variety of unhappy groups, among them Jews, blacks and labor unions. Here too, as in foreign affairs, Carter seemed to keep saying that there were limits to what he could do. Finally one former presidential adviser summed up the feelings of the group. Said he: "The President has a terminal case of meekness." The Harris poll reflected this view in its latest measurement of Carter...
Viet Nam's economic problems were greatly aggravated by the expulsion of 200,000 ethnic Chinese in the past nine months. The Chinese were targeted because of their wide spread involvement in the black market; but they constituted Viet Nam's major entrepreneurial class. They managed the rice trade, the major ports, the distribution systems and several key industries-notably coal...
...were snapshots of the impossible, rendered in the dullest and most literal way: vignettes of language and reality locked in mutual cancellation. As a master of puzzle painting, Magritte had no equal and, although his influence on the formation of images (and on how people decode them) has been wide, he has had no real successors...
Last year it was more of the same, as Caryn challenged her brother Jim, the football team's gifted wide receiver, for a place in Harvard sports lore. The hoop team was promoted to Division One of the AIAW and found the going a little rougher. And though the squad's record fell to 13-10 (quite phenomenal considering the improved competition), the Curry factor remained constant; she led the squad in rebounds, assists, and finished second in scoring...
After winning the first game by a wide margin, Havens returned from a 9-14 deficit in the second to capture the game in overtime, 16-15. Havens took the final stanza easily...