Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most recent additions mean that the residents of Adams, Cabot, Dunster, Eliot, Leverett, Lowell, Mather and North have all approved the move, either at house committee meetings or in house-wide referendums. Freshmen also voted in favor of installing the machines at a special meeting organized by the Freshman Council...
...universe. "I had recently returned from nearly six years in London," she says. "And I wondered what these people had to do with the English Channel." But Cronin was soon immersed in sessions with a jolly Manhattan channeler named Bob Johnson, who served as her conduit for a wide-ranging, exclusive interview with beings on the stars of Alpha Centauri...
When the stage was his only world, Kenneth Tynan dominated it as no drama critic since George Bernard Shaw had. When, sometime in the 1960s, the wide world was turned into a stage for celebrity posturings, the critic recast himself as a potential star, offering himself as an international social critic and sexual reformer. And became just another face in a crowd grotesquely clamoring for attention. The life his second wife, Kathleen, recounts in her uncompromising and ultimately harrowing biography-memoir becomes the record of a befuddled search for the fulfillment of youth's inordinate promise, and for the graceful...
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev are affable television performers who regard themselves as instigators of something approaching a revolution in their nations' domestic policies. Otherwise, they are separated in age, personality and political fortune by a gulf about as wide as the philosophical chasm between the two superpowers. The 76-year-old U.S. President prepares to play host to their third summit meeting next week in Washington, smarting from a long string of setbacks that have raised grave questions about his ability to exercise leadership during the final 14 months of his term. The 56-year-old Soviet General Secretary...
Because corporate clients making huge deals require wide-ranging expertise, competition has fueled a merger boom among firms. A large operation may acquire a "boutique firm" whose specialty it needs or absorb an established local operation to gain an instant foothold in another city. But as many as eight in ten mergers are illadvised, by the estimate of Houston Law Firm Consultant William Cobb. They can lead to a clash of egos among partners accustomed to independence, a ballooning of overhead costs or the mismatch of a loosely organized firm with a centrally operated...