Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last night, the Cambridge City Council heard a proposal for a new step which advocates said would make the area a "center of world peace"--a city-wide program of collective transcendental meditation...
...money from this fund will pay for city wide construction, requests for equipment, and maintenance costs of streets, sidewalks, and playgrounds. Assistant City Manager Richard Rossi said yesterday...
...second outbreak from a 6,000-ft.-wide fissure farther down the mountain kept stoking the 2,000° F flow. For a while, one stream crept toward the isolated, minimum-security Kulani prison camp. For almost three hours, 20 guards and 75 prisoners were without electricity after power was cut off to be rerouted to other areas affected by the lava flow. Some Hilo residents remained unworried and held "housewarming" parties; others looked up at the looming lava and decided to evacuate the area temporarily...
...case has received wide attention not only because New York City supports the nation's largest school system but because Alvarado is no ordinary educator. Eleven months ago, he became the city's first Hispanic chancellor, after working educational magic as superintendent of East Harlem's Spanish-speaking District 4, one of the city's poorest sections. In just a decade, Alvarado's energy and imagination improved student performance dramatically and attracted talented teachers. He became known as an administrator who made fast decisions and had little use for bureaucracy. The only serious reservation about...
...path to developing a wide range of high-tech products, Canon has stumbled on occasion. In 1975 it suffered heavy losses on a line of unsuccessful pocket calculators. Though the firm is now zooming along, officials are worried about possible trade barriers from the U.S. and Europe. That could be crippling, since some 75% of Canon's sales are exports. As a result, the company is gradually moving production overseas to new plants in such places as California and West Germany...