Word: wide
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...Navy's Walker-family spy ring, the sale of secrets by the National Security Agency's Ronald Pelton and the defection of former CIA Employee Edward Howard. The damage could extend far beyond matters related to the Soviets. The Moscow embassy is on the distribution list for a wide range of foreign policy material, including details of U.S. negotiating positions in the Geneva arms talks, background on Nicaragua policy, Middle East affairs and relations between the U.S. and its allies. The CIA has its own communications facilities in Moscow, and the agency is assuming that these too were compromised...
...river's problems begin in the boomtown of Mexicali, which since 1970 has more than doubled its size, to an estimated population of 1 million. There, an overburdened sewerage system dumps millions of gallons of raw waste daily into the 30-ft.-wide stream. Other contaminants are added to the stew as the river continues northward, churning through a garbage dump, past cattle feedlots and dairies, and within yards of ramshackle slums. On the edges of town, such classic polluters as food-processing and chemical plants dump ! organic wastes, pesticides, solvents and other chemicals into slime-filled ditches that drain...
...SASC & Co. still send blockaders to every speech (there are much fewer they need to keep track of now). To reduce campus unrest and cut expenditures, Spence lowers the limit to once a month, and then once a year, matching the number of campus-wide alcohol parties each House can have...
...another maker of IBM compatibles, Zenith offers hefty student discounts and a wide range of sophisticated portables. Zenith is the Happy Hacker's portable computer of choice for doing thesis research in the Widener stacks...
...seven-member nation-wide committee, which included Baird Professor of Science E.O. Wilson, selected the winners from a pool of 3,421 applicants...