Word: wide
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...office lined with scores of art books and bedecked with posters of the Beatles and Mozart, Bentkowski works on his designs. Often he plays a wide range of music on his record-and-tape system, a reminder of the days when he wrote a column of rock criticism for New York magazine, from 1977 to 1984. There have been other aspirations. "I used to dream of becoming a hockey player," says Bentkowski, who hails from Buffalo, "but I was a rare combination of lack of size and lack of speed." The world of magazine design was the obvious beneficiary. After...
...largest proportion of black students have "substantially inferior" facilities and teaching, contributing to the poorer scores that lower-class blacks tend to get on achievement tests. In order to bring each of Topeka's schools close to the overall system average of 18% black students, they urged system-wide busing -- an ironic stance as Smith's father had gone to court three decades earlier to win the right to enroll her in a neighborhood school...
...wonder Soviet workers take off every Oct. 7 to celebrate the adoption of this generous charter. But the reality is that most of the Soviets' political freedoms have never existed in practice or are locked in a straitjacket of limitations. Article 39, for example, is a loophole as wide as the ruling regime wants to make it: "Enjoyment by citizens of their rights and freedoms must not be to the detriment of the interests of the society or the state...
First aired in February, the Arias proposal echoes many of the items included in the so-called Contadora process, a four-year, Latin American effort to negotiate a Central American settlement that still sputters on without appreciable result. Both plans call for a region-wide cease-fire and an end to outside military assistance to all guerrilla groups, including the rebels in El Salvador and the contras. Both schemes propose a general amnesty for insurgents, followed by a peaceful political dialogue between opposition forces and incumbent governments. The Arias plan also follows Contadora in calling for pluralistic democracy...
...ruling was praised by a wide range of educators, scientists, civil libertarians and religious groups. But Bruce Fein of the conservative Heritage Foundation declared, "The decision is a total assault on efforts to get anything related to religious precepts into public schools." The opinion will help lift the pressures on textbook publishers that have been pushed by Fundamentalists to de-emphasize the theory of evolution...