Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although participants admit they sometimes felt they were biting off more than they could chew by considering such a wide range of issues, they say that as their negotiating skills developed they were able to deal with a wide variety of issues systematically and efficiently. They point to the program as a successful example of cooperation, the result of which is a workable blueprint for improving the city...
...addition to his scholarly accomplishments Wilson has received wide acclaim for his skills as an administrator...
...California at Los Angeles - the committee has erected three concentric rings of eight-foot-high mesh fence. The middle one is wired with intrusion-detection devices, installed by the Pentagon, that sends out an alarm when a potential terrorist (or late-night reveler) approaches. The precautions cover a wide range: nine video-arcade games in Fluor Tower at U.S.C. will be removed to prevent terrorists or pranksters from hot-wiring an explosion...
Orthodox rabbis already have wide civil powers. They approve all marriages, divorces and adoptions. Their political clout, moreover, grew during the Begin years. In order to win the support of Agudat Yisrael, the religious party that had four sometimes crucial seats in the Knesset, Begin made several concessions. He forbade El Al flights on the Sabbath, losing an estimated $30 million a year, and pushed through a law limiting autopsies, which violate Orthodox beliefs. Begin also agreed to push the highly controversial "Who is a Jew?" legislation, which would amend Israeli law to ensure that the only converts granted citizenship...
...questions serve as the backdrop of the parliamentary election campaign that is now in full swing. If its tone occasionally seems subdued, and if the two main candidates do not always make their differences clear, there is nonetheless a wide philosophical gap between their approaches. The battle is not only over who will be the next Prime Minister but over what kind of society Israel will be ten, 20,100 years from now. "It is a struggle for Israel's soul," says Meron Benvenisti, former deputy mayor of Jerusalem. "It is a question of values, of what to do with...