Word: wide
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...article in the March 22 Crimson entitled "College Set to Discuss Gay Issue" serves as a reminder that the Harvard Lesbian/Gay Caucus, open to all members of the University (alumni/ae, staff, faculty, students, etc) has been working towards a University wide non-discrimination clause for some time. It is good to see the CCI [Committee on College Life] discuss such a policy...
While redistributing the burden of overcrowding College officials also had to find space for 30 more freshmen than usual and 28 transfer students. Those increased numbers aggravated the already nettlesome problem of campus-wide overcrowding, which administrators have attributed to a recent surge in popularity of on-campus living...
...President." The size of the Administration's victory in the Senate greatly enhanced the MX's chances for getting past the Democrats in the House, which is scheduled for a similar - vote this week. Admitted California Congressman Tony Coehlo, one of the strongest MX foes: "Thanks to the wide Senate margin, we probably can't win in the House...
...Disney but also with Warner Bros. (77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye). ABC was also a pioneer in the made-for-TV movie format. Perhaps its most striking achievements came in sports programming. Under the leadership of Producer Roone Arledge, ABC increased the scope of athletics coverage with its weekly Wide World of Sports; introduced technical innovations like the instant replay; brought pro football into prime time with Monday Night Football; and substantially raised the standards of network sports reporting...
...technology that enables computers to respond to spoken commands, is old hat to fictional electronic brains like HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but still a primitive art in the real world. Computers are not yet discerning enough to cope with the ambiguities of spoken language or with a wide range of accents and tonal qualities. Making sense out of human discourse, says Dataquest Analyst Kenneth Lim, "is quite possibly the most difficult thing for a computer to do, other than actually thinking...