Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prize pupil of Brother Santoro's acclaimed highschool company, which won statewide "mini-academyawards" in repeated drama festivals. As a kid herecalls loving disaster movies and wanting toactually "play the Towering Inferno," and hismother says he annually staged a backyard pick-upplay, the way other kids would organize astreet-wide round of touch football...
...times, the reporter felt that he was being cross-examined by Cuomo. Says Ajemian: "He is always ready to pounce, eager to challenge a fuzzy assumption or murky language." In the course of his reporting, he followed the Governor through a wide range of activities, from visiting a supporter dying of AIDS to conducting meetings of his senior political staff. Cuomo eventually allowed Ajemian to read passages from his personal diary, which only his secretary had seen. "They are a fascinating look at another side of the man, someone quite different from the one the public sees," says Ajemian...
However safe they may prove to be, such designs will probably not be ready for wide-scale use before the turn of the century. Meanwhile, politicians, no less than engineers, will have to confront people's nuclear fears. Having argued for so long that nightmares like Chernobyl could virtually never happen, experts must now live with all the fallout from that historic accident...
Adventurous eaters can nibble on everything from bangers and mash (Britain) to buffalo steak and caribou stew (Northwest Territories). To sip with the caribou, there is clear water from an 8,000-year-old Canadian glacier. For those who wander through Vancouver itself--and everyone should--there is wide culinary variety, everything from Afghan to Mexican. On Granville Island, a yuppie heaven of high-priced condominiums and boutiques, several good restaurants on the water top coffee and dessert with a view of the 10 o'clock fireworks display, which signals the fair's nightly closing...
...commission recommends restraining pornography through measures like a mandatory yearlong prison sentence for repeat obscenity offenders. But it is doubtful that the report has enough scientific authority to support a Government-wide attack on pornography. Several of the experts who provided data to the commission have claimed that their research does not justify the report's finding of a causal link between pornography and violence. The report contradicts a more extensive 1970 study that disputed that link, and the American Civil Liberties Union has condemned the latest findings as pro- censorship. Dissenting Commissioner Judith Becker contends that "social science literature...