Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...started the year with a lot of confusion about why it was so important, and we ended the year with the understanding that charities are something special." Also at least partially due to Harvard efforts, government figures "for the first time in five or six years engaged in wide debate about access to higher education and equity," says Shattuck. This debate has led to "an understanding that student aid is a really cost-efficient way of guaranteeing access to students who couldn't otherwise pay," contrary to claims by Reagan and Secretary of Education William J. Bennett, he says...
Hope W. Wigglesworth '48, the OCS pre-med advisor, says that although there has been a nation-wide drop in medical school applications, the percentage of Harvard graduates enrolling in med school has been rising...
Author Cynthia wide-ranging works have focused on Jewish culture read an oration called "Metaphor and Memory," in which she argued that the two subjects were inextricably linked...
...puts down the mustard jar, walks over to Harley-Davidson and Coors, stands in front of them, hands on wide hips. "Now you listen here, Charlie, I'm good enough woman for any man but all you guys want are chippies...
After months of painstaking measurements, some of the mystery was stripped from Sgr A*. It proved to be shaped like an ellipsoid no more than 1.9 billion miles long and almost a billion miles wide -- impressive by earthly standards but diminutive on a galactic scale and in relation to the tremendous amount of energy it emits. Concludes Astronomer Donald Backer of the University of California, Berkeley: "What we observe is a very bright, compact object that appears to be rather small by stellar dimensions. Yet it's radiating a lot of luminosity. There are many stellar objects in the galaxy...