Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that gaps in the seals or cracks in the fuel mixture could allow the hot exhaust gases within the booster to reach the rocket's outer steel casing and burn through it. Another possibility was that the flame-retarding material between the booster sections could have loosened under the wide variations in temperature, providing another route for a burnthrough. Most analysts assume that once the flame sliced through the rocket casing, it reached the liquid-fuel tank, burning through either the tank's wall or the connecting fuel lines, touching off the massive explosion...
...Dartmouth College installed David McLaughlin as the school's 14th president in the summer of 1981, he seemed a perfect choice for a scholarly Ivy League bastion steeped in lusty, old-boy fellowship. Indeed, his persona glowed the deepest Dartmouth green: Phi Beta Kappa in the class of '54, wide receiver on the football team, M.B.A. from Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. Three of McLaughlin's four children had graduated from Dartmouth or were going there. Finally, as chief executive officer of the Toro Co., makers of lawn and gardening equipment, McLaughlin was an exemplar...
...cutbacks in domestic spending are anything but minor. The President proposes to wipe out completely a wide range of federal programs. The Interstate Commerce Commission, the Small Business Administration and subsidies to Amtrak form just a small part of the hit list. Reagan would also sell to private investors a clutch of federal assets, including Government petroleum reserves and five federal electric-power facilities...
...This wide availability triggers impulse buying. Says Flor Deleo, president of the Miami Flower Exchange: "You walk into a supermarket, see the flowers, and they're attractive and inexpensive. You grab a bottle of wine for $2.99. What's $2.99 more for a nice bouquet of flowers?" Trying to cash in on impulse purchases, 7-Eleven convenience stores in South Florida sell single long-stemmed roses alongside the soft drinks and beer...
DURING THE PAST several weeks the Undergraduate Council has received a surprising amount of attention in College dining halls, dorm rooms and media. That scrutiny began when the supporters of a bid to unseat the student government's top officer tried to turn a campus-wide divestment referendum into a vote of confidence on incumbent Chairman Brian C. Offutt '87. What emerged from these controversies was a debate over student government's responsibility to take stands on what members have called "controversial political questions...