Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House and the FBI say they have no knowledge of that particular inquiry, and those people who have been cited as potential conduits for the funding of political campaigns deny any involvement. But officials note that the investigation into all aspects of the matter is still wide open...
...fair number of S.M.U.'s 9,019 students seem fed up and worried too. Said Freshman Page Howard, addressing an unprecedented university-wide meeting called last week to debate the athletics issue: "I didn't come here because I wanted the football team to win. I wanted to learn. Now I'm scared when I graduate that people are going to laugh at my degree...
...terms were to go into effect on Dec. 11. The new regulations prohibit journalists from being "on the scene, or at a place within sight of any unrest, restricted gathering or security action" without permission of security officials. They forbid the reporting of "subversive" comments by those advocating a wide range of antigovernment actions. They ban the photographing of dead people, property damage or any other "visible signs" of unrest. Violations of the tough new restrictions can be punishable by suspension of operations for as long as three months at a time, jail terms of up to ten years...
...have to rely on anybody else to win for us," wide receiver Stanley Morgan said. "We just have to do the job next week...
...time last week's demonstrations recalled the heady days of May 1968, when hundreds of thousands of radicalized French students took to the streets to protest a wide range of university and government policies. But the new generation of student demonstrators had more modest goals and more orderly manners. Their aim: to defeat an educational-reform bill that would tighten admissions standards and raise tuition fees...