Word: wide
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dartmouth's biggest bright spot is sophomore wide receiver Craig Morton, who caught 21 passes for 718 yards (a 34.2 yards per reception average) and nine touchdowns on the Green's freshman team. Yukica has already called Morton the fastest wide-out he has seen in his eight-year stint with the Big Green...
Meanwhile, Wyman was creating trouble for himself on the home front. To pay for the billion-dollar stock buyback, he decreed a company-wide austerity program that had led in September to the firing of 74 of some 1,400 CBS News employees. (In all, about 600 of the 24,000 jobs at CBS were eliminated in 1985.) The move infuriated CBS News journalists, whose independence is a cherished tradition stretching back to the days of Edward R. Murrow. Adding to the outcry were complaints about efforts to jazz up -- critics said trivialize -- the division's approach to reporting...
...attitude might be taken as a sign of increased flexibility were it not for the eruption of a different crisis within the Law School faculty. There, long simmering tensions between the conservative and radical wings of the faculty--involving paralyzing controversies over Critical Legal Studies and minority faculty--broke wide open last year. Decisions to defer or deny tenure to three liberal professors violated a 17-year tradition of in-house tenure...
Inevitably, the antidrug crusade is producing some ludicrous results. A best-selling toy in the U.S. is Madballs, a set of eight rubber balls adorned with gross names and faces. One of the more grotesque Madballs, depicting a creature whose skull has been split wide open, was called Crack Head. Fearful that this charming toy might be accused of glorifying drug use, the toymakers last month changed the name to Bash Brain...
...part of an industry-wide drive to cut costs, most of today's gold mines are surface, or open-pit, operations, a method used in copper and coal mining. The new excavations can take as long as eight years to start up, but then can handle thousands of tons of low-grade ore daily. The latest mines make use of a chemical technique called heap leaching to reduce costs. The procedure involves the spraying of crude ore with a cyanide solution that absorbs microscopic amounts of gold as it filters through the heaps of rock. After further processing...