Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opposite of freedom may be slavery or captivity, but the range of unfreedoms is wide and subtle and often alarmingly interior. Ignorance and illness are unfreedoms. Unfreedom, like freedom, is often subjective. Compulsion and fear are states of unfreedom. But objective enslavement can make one strong. The soul is a cagey survivor. Prisoners in states of unfreedom contrive their own covert liberty. The Soviet writer Andrei Sinyavski, sent to the labor camps for six years (1966 to 1971) for "manufacturing" anti-Soviet works, wrote, "I measure life by the number of times my head is shaven." He thought about Mozart...
...Boeing executives risked more than $1 billion on the first jumbo jet, the 747, and nearly drove the firm into bankruptcy. A decade later Boeing rolled the dice again by investing $3 billion in the simultaneous development of two fuel-efficient, twin-engine jets, the trim 757 and the wide-body...
When the Supreme Court gave the press libel protection to make public debate "uninhibited, robust and wide open," it must have foreseen that opponents would be equally robust...
Strictly speaking, it was not Hands all the way Across America. There were wide gaps in many spots outside the celebrity-studded cities, even though toward the end, organizers relaxed their requirement of a prior pledge in order to swell the ranks. Some $20 million in contributions had been promised by handholding time, and though it will be weeks before the gifts can be totaled, officials still hope for their $50 million goal...
...people. In New York City's Battery Park was Amy Sherwood, 6, who until last month had been living with her mother and two sisters in a Manhattan welfare hotel. Little Amy also came to symbolize opportunity: she has signed a talent- agency contract that may soon bring her wide smile and pigtails to TV commercials...