Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Western Culture program requires that students take one of eight wide-ranging courses. The core books--including works by Homer, Dante, Darwin and Marx--are required reading in each of the eight, but beyond them, instructors can choose which books to include...
...chance it was heard by Derek Jewell, a music critic for the London Sunday Times. His unexpected rave led to a recording. Lloyd Webber's deft gift for parody (the Elvis homage of Pharaoh's Story) and melodic invention (Joseph's moving anthem Close Every Door) captured a wide audience. "Without realizing it," recalls Rice, "we were breaking new ground by forgetting about Rodgers and Hammerstein...
...Government releases the U.S. trade-deficit figure for November. If the deficit shrinks from October's $17.6 billion to $15 billion or less, the financial markets are likely to take this as evidence that the dollar has fallen enough to begin remedying the problem. But if the gap remains wide, the beleaguered dollar may need an even more costly rescue mission...
...overpowerful custodian's union, whose president was killed last year in what police described as a gangland-style rubout, dictates the hours schools will be open. Tenured high school principals cannot be fired without interminable hearings. Under a 19-year-old decentralization plan, elementary and junior high schools enjoy wide latitude in curriculum and administrative matters -- which has resulted in a chaotic absence of accountability. Nevertheless, the central bureaucracy keeps a stranglehold on orders for such bedrock necessities as textbooks and Xerox paper...
...story is one of many that University denizens recount about Cambridge's new mayor, who began his fourth term last week. Along with a long record of proposing serious legislation, Vellucci is known far and wide for his cheerful zest in thwarting Harvard...