Word: wide
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Last year the 41 proposals we dealt with covered a wide range of corporate activity, from a call on Emerson Electric to adopt ethical criteria for accepting military contracts: to a demand that Merck & Co. cease making contributrions to charitable organizations and non-profit institutions: to an appeal to Standard Oil of California. Baxter Travenol, Texaco, and Xerox to abide by minimal standard of ethical conduct in their South African operations or withdraw from that country...
With so few women in visable positions of authority, it is not surprising that a 1983 University, wide survey revealed that nearly one third of all female respondents (undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty members) had experienced some form of sexual harassment while at Harvard it becomes apparent, then, that there must be a direct relationship between these numerous incidents of harassment and the significant imbalance in power of men (i.e. men in a position of authority) vis a vis women. Ignoring the systemic roots of sexual harassment, that is ignoring this power imbalance, leads to a situation where sexual harassment...
...Temple of Doom. Now, returning from the outer space of the Star Wars sagas and the exotic locales frequented by that adventurous archaeologist, Indiana Jones, he is starring in Peter Weir's Witness, a contemporary thriller that promises to be the first hit of 1985. Put into wide release on Feb. 8, the film made $4,540,000 in its first weekend, an exceptional figure for a picture that boasts neither gimmicks nor special effects...
...same can be said about Ford. Han Solo, that interstellar swashbuckler, is brash and egotistical; Indiana Jones, with his whip and wide-brimmed hat, is a dashing romantic; John Book is, in the end, sensitive and compassionate. All three characters are believably different, but all three are also brothers. All share that quarter-inch, side-of-the-mouth smile that follows a sardonic one-liner, and all are based on the rock-hard actor underneath. "The roles get lost in Harrison," says Carrie Fisher, the Princess Leia of the Star Wars series. "I don't think that there...
...upward surge of the superdollar was news around the globe. THE DOLLAR IS DEFYING ALL LAWS OF GRAVITY exclaimed Madrid's financial daily Cinco Dias. Newspapers across France's wide political spectrum were equally excited. Read the front page of Paris' conservative Le Figaro: OVER 10 FRANCS, THE DOLLAR HAS GONE THROUGH THE CEILING. One edition of the Socialist tabloid Le Matin included a replica of a $1 bill. By buying a copy for the newsstand price of 4 francs, the newspaper proclaimed, readers could get a "dollar" at a 60% discount...