Word: wide
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than Government economists believed possible, from 7% as recently as August 1977 to a four-year low of 5.7% in June. When the Council of Economic Advisers met in late March, says one member, "the numbers just did not add up. We had underestimated the inflationary pressure by a wide margin...
Clark is only one of many small, imaginative entrepreneurs who are successfully pushing a wide variety of U.S. exports. Hurdling problems of language, complex export red tape and trade barriers that have daunted bigger U.S. businessmen, the new entrepreneurs are shipping some unusual products abroad...
Trees from the Angelica Nurseries in Kennedyville, Md., will soon be planted for shade and beauty on the wide boulevards of European cities. When Europe's nurseries were unable to meet the high demand for the large-leafed, pollution-resistant trees of the London plane variety, Angelica's owners, Thomas J. Kohl and his three sons, saw their chance. From their 1,000-acre tree farm this year, they sent 5,000 sycamore hybrids to Hamburg at $24 to $30 each and expect to ship as many as 10,000 next year...
...Object Again." As whomped-up pieces go, it's relatively modest, confining its thesis only to a year, not to a decade, as in Tom Wolfe's overhyped Me Decade. The author is described as Judy Klemesrud, "an avowed feminist and veteran New York Times reporter." How wide the phenomenon of the lusty-again woman is, and how detached an observer of the trend Klemesrud is, gets called into question, however, when "Backstage with Esquire" goes on to note: "Klemesrud is sending out Christmas cards this season that bear a striking photograph of her lying face down...
Trying to assuage indignant Africans, the U.S. mission drafted a press release in which the ambassador would have acknowledged that while some of Amin's remarks were offensive, others deserved wide approval. Moynihan balked. "I let it be known," he writes, "that not one god damn thing Amin had said had won my 'wide approval.' " It began to dawn on Kissinger that his ambassador was more than he had bargained for. Bit by leaked bit, the Secretary indicated his displeasure, until a rebuke via James Reston's column in the New York Times persuaded Moynihan that...