Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Business School, a campus-wide computer system of IBM PCs has been in place for more than a year. The system provides for basic communication needs including everything from computerized billboards to class schedules. And the school's curriculum, which focuses primarily on case study situations, relies on the machines to compute high-level business decisions that officials say would be immpossible without computers...
...also uses cartoons, paintings and photographs displayed on a wide screen throughout his lectures, which commonly draw between 150 and 200 students...
...colleges and universities, in the U.S. and elsewhere. Harvard's Extension School this year will begin offering a Master's degree in the field. And despite the fact that many are offered only sporadically, Women's Studies courses have proven popular among both male and female undergraduates, from a wide range of departments...
...Britain, however, the Civil Aviation Authority ordered a more wide-ranging inspection of the engines, grounding about 10% of the country's passenger fleet and causing flight delays of up to seven hours at the beginning of last week. British Airways announced that it had found engine problems similar to the one in the Manchester accident in four of its twelve Boeing 737s, but the airline's officials angrily denied an FAA allegation that the engine cracks were caused by operating the motors at excessively high temperatures. Still, many passengers are nervous. "People are making requests to sit near emergency...
...handed rookie dropped some 20 straight passes and described her own performance as "very, very poor." She had fared much better at tackling the local school board policy barring women from playing in men's contact sports. A court order allowing her to join the team first made the wide receiver feel "like I was under a lot of pressure from people who said I wouldn't survive the first day of practice." But Balsley, who was loudly cheered by her male teammates for surviving a "thud drill" that momentarily knocked the wind out of her, now vows with feminine...