Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...secret. Planning for any kind of successful policy must define realistic objectives, set limits on what is to be attempted, consider whether the means available match those required, carefully weigh potential benefits against likely costs. All that is much easier to achieve when a proposal is subject to wide debate than when, even inside the Government, it can be discussed only under hush-hush conditions by a tightly limited group of officials. Sloppy planning too often slips by in those circumstances. An inordinate number of covert operations seem in hindsight either to have been doomed to failure, like...
...those who are opposing the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, some relatively sophisticated and others seemingly handmade. According to U.S. intelligence officials, the 30 to 40 used under the supervision of the CIA have caused the most damage. They are smooth cylinders up to 10 ft. long and 21 in. wide, filled with 300 Ibs. of C-4 plastic explosive. Weighted by another 300 Ibs. of material, they are transported by a mother ship operating 30 miles offshore, carried closer inland by speedboats and dropped to the bottom of shipping channels...
...March that service to New York City's corporate customers has declined, but said they intend to bring it back to normal levels by July. With a backlog of 20,000 orders, there is now a wait of up to six weeks for high-volume discount wide-area telecommunications service (WATS) lines and 800 numbers, vs. five to 15 days last year...
...swains; and while her girlfriends at the plant seem ripe to make an oddball ensemble, Director Jonathan Demme deflects their few chances for feminist fun. Through the oilcloth of nostalgia one can still spot some fine performances. Hawn unerringly registers Kay's every emotion with the wide-eyed intensity of a six-year-old; Christine Lahti is a delight as the tart cookie who lives next door; Holly Hunter shines as a brand-new war widow. With their devoted handiwork, the Swing Shift aircraft almost takes off. -By Richard Corliss
...PAST few years, Harvard and Cambridge have moved to the forefront of the national debate over world armaments and arms control. The publication of Living with Nuclear Weapons at the behest of President Bok and the city-wide referendum last fall on a nuclear weapons testing and production ban are but two of the more prominent and commendable manifestations of this trend. The debate has its darker side, however, and nothing illustrate this better than recent local controversy over a global problem--chemical and biological warfare...