Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debate at Pine Manor College was one of a flurry the candidates have been holding recently in the wide-open race for the Senate seat being vacated by Paul E. Tsongas...
...Meese's request, Smith last week asked a select panel of three senior federal judges to appoint a special prosecutor with a wide latitude to look into charges that Meese was helped financially by people who later got federal jobs, failed to report one loan and a stock purchase, got special treatment in shifting his Army Reserve status and knew more than he has admitted about documents from the 1980 Carter campaign that ended up in his own files. The prosecutor is expected to be named this week. Even if the investigation is completed within six months and Meese...
When the world's largest active volcano erupted for the first time in nine years, it did so with spectacular fury. Fountains of fiery lava shot 400 ft. into the air from the 1½-mile-wide crater at the summit of Mauna Loa (13,677 ft.). The lava spilled down blackened mountain slopes in thick rivers of gleaming marigold fire, looking demonically magical, an apprentice sorcerer's wish for gold gone awry. At week's end the menacing wall had oozed to within four miles of Hawaii's second-largest city, Hilo...
...effort. The University realized that the union did not have the resources to organize the Main Campus at the same time as the Medical Area, and that merely by shifting certain personnel operations of the Medical Area to Holyoke Center it could secure a Board ruling requiring a university-wide election, thus thwarting any successful organizing drive...
...which Harvard has engaged in union-busting activities; rather, it is but one example of a comprehensive program to prevent workers from exercising their collective bargaining rights. Harvard retains management consultants who specialize in union-busting. Harvard has threatened to discharge workers who distribute union literature during office-wide coffee breaks. The University's private police force even threatened to arrest pickets during this summer's food service worker's strike...