Word: wide
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However, there is a wide gap between what is currently on the public record about the Hibbs case and what would violate the privacy interests of the two women...
...campus-wide referendum, which passed by a 1044 to 687 vote, called for the university's health services to stock cyanide pills. The students would then have the option to commit suicide in case of a nuclear attack...
...attempt to reduce budget deficits for fiscal year 1986, Reagan is asking for cuts in a wide range of housing programs, including a one year moratorium on spending for modernization of currently existing public housing projects, a 95 percent reduction in funds for the subsidized housing program, and a 10 percent cut in the community bloc grant program...
This year's rally has spread across stocks in a wide range of industries. High-technology shares, which slumped in 1984, are on the move again, led by IBM, the top U.S. computer manufacturer. Since the beginning of the year, IBM's stock has risen 10.4%, to 135 3/4. Hewlett-Packard, another computer firm, has gone up 9.2%, to 37, and National Semiconductor, which makes silicon chips for computers, has increased 13.7%, to 13 1/2. Investors have scored even bigger gains with stocks in companies that produce machine tools, which climbed 21% in January, and shares in hospital-management firms...
Laurie Anderson: United States Live (Warner Bros., five disks). Laurie Anderson's United States, Parts I-IV, which premiered two years ago at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, is the work that first brought the avant-garde form of performance art to a wide audience. A dazzling synthesis of music, narration and film, Anderson's free-associating view of American materialism was marked by both wry humor (I dreamed I had to take a test in a Dairy Queen on another planet, goes one section) and an imaginative use of technology: with a device called a Vocoder, she can speak...