Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conventional warfare. These criticims are a large political embarassment to the "get tough" Reagan team, already facing Congressional opposition to proposed defense funding increases. The relative preparedenss famine in times of Pentagon plenty must be attributed in large part to inordinate expenditures on nuclear over conventional forces and to wide-spread waste...
Careful strategy and ball handling techniques characterize the international game, while the wide open dump-and-run style has been popularized by American professional soccer...
...agree to import curbs rather than risk losing votes in big steelmaking states such as Pennsylvania and Ohio. The quotas, however, would limit the supply of steel in the U.S. and thus raise its price. That, in turn, could hurt all consumers by driving up the prices of a wide range of products...
Both descriptions are accurate. Stretching nearly 200 miles from its northern end at the Susquehanna flats to its southern end at the Virginia capes, only 30 miles wide at its broadest point, the Chesapeake has long been a source of almost overwhelming natural abundance. Geese, black ducks, mallard, teal and widgeon have darkened the skies over the bay and fattened themselves in its marshes. Striped bass, shad and herring spawn in its shallow bays. Oysters, clams and the succulent Atlantic blue crab provide the bay's hardy watermen with a livelihood and gourmets with seafood delights...
While Air Florida's grounding was sudden, the once flourishing airline had been in trouble for some time. Founded in 1972 to fly within Florida, it grew rapidly at the end of the decade, when airline deregulation permitted wide-open competition. By 1980 Air Florida was offering low-cost flights to major East Coast cities and to Europe, the Caribbean and Central America. But price wars blasted its profits, and aggressive rivals like Delta and Pan American flew off with much of the Miami-based carrier's business. Also damaging was the 1982 crash of an Air Florida...