Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evacuees began to return home the next day when fire fighters had seemingly brought the burning chemical under control. But while the tanker was being righted, it reignited. As the vapors formed a three-mile-wide cloud that loomed like fog over the area, police cruised through the streets ordering residents to clear out once more. This time almost 30,000 area residents fled. It was the largest evacuation in Ohio history, transforming Miamisburg into a temporary ghost town...
...winner, launched a barrage of advertising and publicity. But if this sort of support automatically spelled success, the nation would be crawling with best sellers. Genuine word-of-mouth, pass-along reader enthusiasm cannot be sustained by ads alone. Books that seemingly come out of nowhere to capture wide audiences do so primarily because they offer exactly what a considerable number of people are ready to hear...
...slashing wholesale prices, IBM hopes to enable dealers who have been hurt by industry-wide price cutting to recoup some of their losses. Says Anthony Morris, a major IBM retailer in New York City: "We were beginning to eat our own margins." Moreover, IBM will probably unveil additional measures to compete with the clones. Although the company with its vast resources (1985 sales: $50 billion) depends on PCs for less than 10% of its revenues, IBM does not intend to abandon the market. Industry insiders believe that it is about to market a new version of the PC-AT, with...
Harvard should finalize its plan for an University-wide network linking all the computers on campus by December, Vice President for Administration Robert Scott said this week...
...offers measured praise to all the last four Popes: John XXIII ("warm-hearted and unaffectedly simple"), Paul VI ("He was able to steer the church through a period of revolutionary change"), John Paul I ("a man of practical common sense") and John Paul II ("Few Popes have had such wide- ranging intellectual equipment as John Paul, and none has had such a far- reaching impact"). Such judgments are quite unexceptionable, but a secular- minded reader will find more of interest in some of the bad old days...