Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard's administrators consider plans for a massive University-wide fund drive, the success of alumni fundraising has become increasingly important...
...recruiting efforts. Unfortunately, most of this vision did not survive the steering committee. The proposed senior faculty representatives were replaced by department chairs. Independent faculty representatives would be more likely to put the goals of their position before departmental chumminess. And many department chairs, already overtaxed with a wide range of administrative duties, are often so concerned with the images of their fiefdoms that incisive criticism is likely to be squelched...
...award is given every three years to a graduate or undergraduate whose collection of art or books best exemplifies the traditions of breadth, coherence and imagination exemplified by Hofer, who formed and gave to the College a collection wide in scope, original in conception and scholarly in purpose, according to a press release...
Eventually, the driver maneuvers past the house. "He saw me coming," Malone snarls, as he hunches over the wheel. "These two-lane highways are mighty aggravating when I got a wide load...
...some extent, the industry has made customers leery by engaging in esoteric debates over formats and components. Case in point: the controversy over an industry-wide computer "operating system." While the selection of this format is critically important to computer companies, customers tend to be confused by the endless discussions over the relative merits of such systems as OS/2 and UNIX. The same goes for the rivalry between the two fastest chips, the Intel 80486 and the Motorola 68040. "The industry is so busy talking inside baseball that it has forgotten the customers. They're thoroughly confused by all this...