Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Landslide, landslide," the jubilant Republicans chanted as they watched election returns color network maps blue on a wide-screen television...
Crowded around an eight foot-wide television screen, and watched over by a portrait of John F. Kennedy '40, the roughly 120 people in attendance applauded loudest when a network finally projected some electoral votes for Mondale--the three in the District of Columbia...
Vura took over, running and passing the Quakers down to the Harvard nine-yard line in six plays. On third and goal from the nine, Vura found split end John Vaturia wide open in the end zone and deposited the ball between his numbers...
...most important, during the course of the campaign, President Reagan has failed to piece together a program for the future; he has not provided any new ideas. In short, he has failed to nationalize the election, to give it a country-wide dynamic which could cut across the idiosyncratic quirks of particular districts...
Such adventures, however, are par for the course for Marsden, who for 16 years has been responsible for the world-wide alert of professional and amatcur astronomers about unusual astronomical occurrences...