Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other moment since the beginning of the TV era, it is of two, three, many minds about its present and future. It sees rising costs and falling attendance at the box office, while at home Americans watch more movies than ever. It finds the gap between world-wide hits and big-budget belly flops wider than a Whoopi Goldberg smile. As the industry awaits next week's announcement of the Oscar nominations, it has to wonder if, after almost a decade of mostly good times, its sources of popular inspiration have evaporated. Hollywood's Golden Age died...
...fact, the U.S. maneuvers were far from routine. The Navy did indeed seem intent on challenging Gaddafi's claim that the 300-mile-wide gulf belongs to Libya. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who devised the strategy and won White House support, had another purpose as well: to show Libya what it might confront if it promotes more terrorism. The U.S. contends that Gaddafi was at least partly responsible for the Christmas-week massacres at the Rome and Vienna airports. Beyond that, senior U.S. officials seemed eager to provoke Gaddafi into a military response. Said one Pentagon official: "If they...
Says AMP instructor and B-School professor George C. Lodge of the program, "It's extremely exciting. It's different from MBAs because they bring a wide variety of often very deep experience." He said that while participants aren't graded, they contribute to class discussion because of peer pressure...
...siege suspends individual liberties and gives security forces wide powers of search, seizure and arrest...
POLLING: Students will get the opportunity to voice their opinion on the divestment issue in one week when the Council holds a campus-wide referendum. The referendum will ask questions on the University's policy on investing in companies which do business in South Africa and on the Council's role in advancing the majority opinion. Organizers of the referendum are presenting it as the final word on the Endowment, and hope it will prompt the Council to speak out on juicy, controversial questions...