Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never have thought about it, but exams sans supervision are the way it's done at dozens of schools nation-wide. At some colleges, students are responsible for watching over themselves and each other: Princeton undergraduates, for example, are obliged to snitch on classmates they see cheating. Codes of conduct at other schools cover the range of activities beyond academic honesty, mandating penalties for everything from check-bouncing to public insobriety...
...CRACK has appeared in the beseiged brick facade of Massachusetts Hall. The fault is a narrow one, but it is more than wide enough to engulf President Derek C. Bok's carefully argued and heretofore intransigent investment policy...
...wide-ranging open letter issued last week, the president reaffirmed his opposition to total divestment and summarized recent efforts to effect change in South Africa through the preferred policy of "intensive dialogue...
...decision to establish a $1 million anti-apartheid fund with Harvard money similarly defies his strictures about the appropriate uses of University resources. As described in the open letter, this fund would support a wide array of endeavors, including lobbying for federal sanctions against South Africa, "contributing money to the defense of South Africans whose human rights have been violated," and sending Harvard students to South Africa to provide legal, medical, and educational services...
...with accelerating zest. Beauty parlors have mushroomed. Sedate discos and bowling alleys have sprung up. Citizens are snapping up $100 cameras and going on picture-taking sprees. In a few cities, six out of seven families own a television set, on which they can watch commercials offering a wide range of domestic and foreign consumer goods. There are aerobics classes and body-building sessions; one of the beauty items for sale in the capital is a fengruqi, a machine purported to enlarge the breast...