Word: wide
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...shorten the duration of prison sentences and encourage rehabilitation. Such laws provide early release on parole for good behavior in prison with the possibility of reimprisonment for violation of the terms of parole. They are by no means universal or sufficient in scope and should be enacted nation wide...
Working in "a tight spot," said Levin, did pose some problems. Without storage place, for example, materials could only be delivered as they were needed. Workers also had to make sure to use appropriate equipment, such as cranes without wide swings...
With $20 million in its first 17 days of wide release, Mask is this year's first strong entry in the weepstakes. Its subject, Rocky Dennis, was the butt of one of God's practical jokes. This bright teenager had a preternaturally sweet disposition--and the grotesque face of Bert Lahr's Cowardly Lion. Rocky's rare disease, craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, ended his life at 16, in 1978. And yet (of course) he was one of nature's noblemen, loved by puppies, blind girls and the motorcycle gang his mother Rusty hung out with. "I look weird," says Rocky (Eric Stoltz...
...buildup began in February. In the dead of night, 200 men in camouflage uniforms, each carrying a new AK-47 rifle and two grenades, left their secret training camps in India and gathered by the edge of the sea. At a quiet command, they slipped into plastic, wide-bottomed boats and set off, guided by fishermen who steered by the stars. In less than two hours, the fighters had crossed 26 miles of the Palk Strait and were wading ashore, ready to wage war in Sri Lanka...
Whatever mainstream church leaders think of Unificationism as a faith, many have voiced their objection to Moon's imprisonment. He has protested that his conviction amounts to selective persecution of an unpopular religion. A wide variety of religious leaders agree, including the National Council, Moral Majority Founder Jerry Falwell, and Roman Catholic Bishop Ernest Unterkoefler of Charleston...