Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Security benefits, tax credits for the elderly and larger tax cuts for the middle class. One TV spot claimed that about 75% of the campaign funds Helms raised last year came from out-of-state sources. In fact, both campaigns have attracted large donations from a variety of nation-wide groups, based mainly on their strong sentiments for or against Helms...
...pledged his support to Mao's hand picked successor as Chairman, Hua Guofeng, Deng replaced him with General Secretary Hu Yaobang and installed Zhao Ziyang as Premier. Now most experts agree that although the "open door" will continue to swing on its hinges, it has been open so wide for so long that even if the leftists could close it again, they would only lock in Deng's changes. Says a Western diplomat in Peking: "If you gave Deng a 20% chance of succeeding in 1978, you would give him an 85% chance...
...history's biggest oil-tanker spill as well as the most costly maritime accident ever. The $15 million ship and its $24 million cargo of Middle Eastern crude were lost in the icy waters. In addition, the 68 million gal. of oil created a slick 18 miles wide and 80 miles long and polluted 130 miles of the scenic French coast, raising the cries of environmentalists around the world. Last week a federal district judge in Chicago ruled that Standard Oil Co. (Indiana), better known as Amoco, and two subsidiaries that operated the tanker are liable for most...
...will develop, in which each side seeks supremacy in technological areas that would be vital to any ballistic missile defense. And while the U.S. may hold a temporary lead in space technology, it is also vastly more dependent than Russia on satellites for communications and reconnaissance because of its wide-flung network of submarines, bomber bases, and other defense installations...
With a degree of resignation, Brownmiller seems to accept a wide range of restrictions--physical, emotional and otherwise--which society has placed on women. In many instances, Brownmiller herself buys into the many myths about women. "Love of babies, any baby and all babies, not only one's own, is a celebrated and anticipated feminine emotion," she writes...