Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bill, co-sponsored by State Sen. John W. Olver (D-Amherst) and state Rep. Saundra Graham (D-Cambridge), boasts to be the first state-wide effort in the nation to use linkage to increase the number of child care centers...
...state bill was modeled from an ordinance adopted in San Francisco in 1985 which linked development of city buildings with the creation of child care centers. Massachusetts lawmakers are hoping to enforce state-wide development of such facilities...
...exiled priests to return home, granted pardons to 16 imprisoned foreigners, reopened the opposition daily La Prensa, lifted the ban on Radio Catolica and proclaimed unilateral cease-fires in four remote war zones. The Sandinistas contend that these moves demonstrate their commitment to the plan and to the region-wide cease-fire scheduled to begin Nov. 5. The White House counters that no peace can endure so long as the Sandinistas fail to evict Cuban and Soviet advisers from Nicaraguan soil and refuse to negotiate a cease-fire directly with the contra leadership. Neither action is required under the terms...
...higher temperatures. Indeed, Paul C.W. Chu of the University of Houston and colleagues reached 98 K, or -283 degrees F, an achievement some physicists think should have earned Chu a share of the prize. That level of cooling can be achieved with more readily available liquid nitrogen. Suddenly, a wide range of applications seems economically feasible: trains that ride on a cushion of magnetism; smaller, faster supercomputers; more powerful medical imaging machines; and 100%-efficient power lines. The superfast train, notes Bednorz, "is a real dream of mine...
...boxy four-wheelers. Once the choice of rough-riding macho men who used them for off-road hunting and fishing expeditions, jeeps are now favored by suburban squires, teenagers, retirees and women of all ages. Most are using the vehicles to explore the well-paved and not-so-wide-open spaces of the nation's cities and suburbs. "They're easy to spot in a parking lot," notes Phoebe Latimer, 27, an Albuquerque Wrangler owner, "because they sit above everything else...