Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maneuver the satellite to its destination. That two-step process, critics say, is so complicated that the possibility of mishap is increased. Shuttle loyalists, however, insist that Ariane lacks the flexibility of the U.S. craft, and they point to last week's retrieval as an example of its wide range of capabilities. "That's the kind of thing you can't do with an expendable system like Ariane," says Miles Waggoner, NASA's spokesman for international affairs. Beyond all that, the shuttle is reusable, a feature that should help NASA hold down its costs...
...talks and an incentive for resuming START. Since the U.S. could never agree to such a demand, the two sets of negotiations seemed in danger of remaining in limbo. Other than noting the face-saving benefits of the umbrella format, the Administration has said little about how such wide-ranging talks would be organized and carried...
More important, there is wide agreement by specialists that Ethiopia's agricultural plight could be reversed only by a program of sustained, substantial and intense long-term assistance. However much aid is shipped into the country during the next year, more will be needed to help Ethiopia, and its neighbors, return to productive harvests. Many officials assume that the present torrent of sympathy will subside quickly as memories of the TV footage begin to fade and world attention turns to other matters. The results would be grim...
While trying to heal his nation's wounds, the new Prime Minister had asserted his power skillfully. But he had also, in his first week in office, acquired the problem of wide-scale Sikh homelessness to add to the burning fuse of Sikh restlessness. After all the tributes paid to Indira Gandhi, the finest, he knew, would be a resolution to the Sikh problem that had ended his mother's life, and that, if unresolved, could end many more. -By Pico Iyer. Reported by Dean Brelis and James Willwerth/New Delhi
Cozza's squads have been known for and wide for the strength they-have-or had. Until a couple of years ago. But yale suffered through its worst season ever, a 1-9 campagin, in 1983. The year before, the Bulldogs went...