Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dublin to London and New York City. His settings, from Ardmor Castle to the local pub, are natural and unforced; the language of his characters hints at hidden poetry without breaking into showy lyricism or stage Irish: "Beyond the streaky window, the land opened out before us -- the wide, green fields of the midlands, the hills of Munster, a flashing glimpse of ruined keep, a manor house half hidden by plantation, the battered, roofless nave of a lost friary or monastery...
...when fire burned through an O-ring that sealed the joint between two rocket sections. This time the problem was in a flexible boot ring that helps anchor the swiveling rocket nozzle to the rigid booster case. Nearly half of the ring, which is 8 in. wide, 2 in. thick and 8 ft. in diameter, broke away during the horizontal ground test; some pieces were found inside the booster. The nozzle had been deliberately shifted 7 degrees, just 1 degrees short of its maximum movement...
...such, the union should respect its workers by letting them make their own choices, based on a wide range of information. If the union wants power for Harvard's workers (and not simply for itself) then it should give the workers the power to make their own decisions after hearing all sides of the issues...
Because the two sides still do not concur on the order in which they should discuss a wide range of issues. including salaries, benefits and job classification. Wednesday's negotiation meeting lasted only nine minutes, said clerical workers union President Lucille A. Dickess...
Gorbachev was already showing wide-ranging intellectual curiosity. "I cannot even say for which subjects I felt a special interest in school," he told an Italian interviewer much later. "At the outset I wanted to enter the physics faculty ((of Moscow State University)). I liked mathematics a lot, but I also liked history and literature. To this day I can recite by heart poetry that I learned at school." He lacked the entrance requirements to pursue science courses, so he decided to study...