Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cream-colored chamois-and-silk banquettes. His masseur, his valet, his barber and his chiropractor -- they accompany him everywhere -- are relaxing as well because "A.K.," as he is known to his employees, is fast asleep on the $200,000 Russian sable spread covering his 10-ft.-wide bed in one of the plane's three bedrooms...
...favorite political buzz word these days is competitiveness. The entrepreneurial spirit. Managements lean and mean. Industries able to compete with foreign producers. But the concept is a nebulous one. Politicians are now labeling a wide array of proposals, from increased funding for education and scientific research to more restrictive trade legislation, as ways to make America more competitive in the world...
...laymen and even some independent-minded faculty scorn tenure as a refuge for the insecure or the marginally competent. But the fact is that tenure or some analogous security blanket is basic to the role of the university as an arena of open inquiry. Scholars must be free within wide bounds to teach, write and research in accordance with their convictions, whether or not these convictions are congenial to their superiors or to society at large...
...Northwest DC-10 was speeding toward takeoff at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport when the warning came from the flight engineer: "There's a whale on the runway!" Another Northwest wide-bodied DC-10 had just left a taxiway and poked its nose into the path of the oncoming plane. "I see it," replied the amazingly cool captain of the departing aircraft. He abruptly jerked his jumbo jet into the air. His wing cleared the fuselage of the crossing plane by a mere 50 ft. There were 501 people on the two jets. They had barely avoided what would have...
MEAT OF THE YEAR Whether they thought of it as a rodent or more lovingly as a cuddly bunny, Americans have generally had little taste for rabbit meat. No longer. Lean and less fattening than chicken, rabbit lends itself to a wide variety of preparations, hence its now standard appearance in many supermarket freezer cases and on menus of only moderately fashionable restaurants. Now if only there were a way to stuff the ears...