Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mikhail Gorbachev, Moscow has been dropping ever more arresting hints of its readiness to bring home the 115,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan. Last week the man at the top flashed the clearest signal yet, and it sent peace hopes soaring. In a move clearly timed to capture a wide audience, a Soviet broadcaster interrupted a prime-time television showing of the 1958 film based on Mikhail Sholokhov's classic, And Quiet Flows the Don, to read an announcement from Gorbachev. There are "considerable chances," said the General Secretary's statement, that the next round of peace talks on Afghanistan...
...kind of flattering to see these kids all wide-eyed waiting for you," Harvard Captain Steve Armstrong said. "It's kind of fun when a kid asks for an autograph...
...press conference yesterday, Themba Vilakasi, director of the Fund and chairman of the African National Congress in the United States, said that the divestment movement was important because a wide variety of people denounced apartheid in words, including the government of South Africa, without acting on those words. "We cannot measure people's commitment against apartheid simply by words--we must look at their deeds," he said...
...indicts Panamanian Strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega on a wide range of drug charges. -- Unrealistically low campaign- spending limits present candidates with some curious moral and logistical quandaries. -- It is no < longer this man' s Army, as the Pentagon moves to expand opportunities for servicewomen...
...Rise and Fall of the Great Powers is sure to generate considerable discussion and debate among professional historians. Amateur spectators will probably concentrate on what the coming decades are supposed to hold. Americans, specifically, have noticed over the past few years that wide swatches of the rest of the world are turning from obedient clients into uppity competitors. Trade imbalance, budget deficits, falling currency, skyrocketing military expenses now conspire to trouble the American dream. There is a nagging fear that things are coming unglued, and Kennedy does little to allay...