Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spokesman said there are no suspects in the case, which has received wide national media attention...
...code name for the Colombia operation was Hat Trick. The plan was to deploy dozens of Coast Guard and Navy vessels across a wide sweep of the Caribbean to intercept the huge shipments of marijuana that are transported from Colombia to the U.S. at the conclusion of the pot harvest in November and December. The elaborate strategy called for Colombian soldiers to move against marijuana traffickers in the Guajira Peninsula, between the Gulf of Venezuela and the Caribbean. With Venezuelan and Panamanian soldiers guarding their respective borders, the smugglers would be forced to ship out the marijuana...
...Francisco last month, Bill Honig, California's superintendent of public instruction, voiced the wide spread frustration with the textbook dilemma when he asked a convocation of 43 educators and 50 representatives from 16 publishing houses, "Who is in charge?" The answer is everybody and nobody. Certainly not Honig, though his voice has been one of the loudest and most persistent calling for textbook reform. In his own state, below fifth grade a zoo story may not include such words as beaver, parrot, goat - and zoo. A California anti-junk-food lobby's taboo still limits references...
...after a coaching change, Flutie arrived from nearby Natick High as a fourth-stringer. By the final quarter of his fourth idle Saturday, glumly watching B.C. in its usual throes-this time trailing Penn State 31-0-he had about resolved to ask Jack Bicknell for a trial at wide receiver, when the coach turned and scanned the bench. In the best tradition of the worst movies, Flutie went in and passed...
...workers there a cent since the two-month old strike began. The Yale corporation faces great and growing pressure from the thousands of faculty and students who bear that brunt of the strike but are nonetheless without a voice in settling the dispute. The union's case has received wide-spread coverage in the media, and the case they've made is a very strong one. Yet despite' forceful criticisms, Yale seems intent on starting down the public outrage...