Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computer facilities for their children in other schools. Giroux says, however, that the new computer school provides workshops in computer education to teachers employed at other Cambridge schools, and that several computer companies have given the system samples of their wares, which are being set up on a city wide basis...
...Robby Benson) spends his time surfing, reclining in a Jacuzzi, and thinking of himself as Hemingway--the latter possibly accounts for a vocabulary that makes Spring Break seem eloquent. While the story centers on the deep affection between father and son, the communication gap between the two is so wide as to make the actual emotions not only a source of confusion for the characters themselves, but also a mystery to the viewers. While neither Harry nor the audience doubt that he is a dying man, the Son seems oblivious to any trouble at all. A valedictorian two years...
There is no way that we could stand by and see that sea-lane denied to shipping." So said President Reagan last week, referring to growing concern that fighting between Iran and Iraq could close the 40-to 60-mile-wide Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf shipping lane through which 20% of the West's crude oil travels. That threat grew more worrisome as Iran launched yet another offensive, its biggest since July 1982, against Iraq. By week's end Iranian forces had occupied 37 Iraqi border villages, and were engaged in fierce hand-to-hand battles...
...Instead the devices will be taken into the Payload Changeout Room, Slick Six's third movable building. This 158-ft.-high, 6,000-ton structure moves by rail toward the waiting assembly building, where a mammoth door of six panels, each measuring 30 ft. high and 130 ft. wide, will slowly rise, just like a garage door. Inside the building-within-a-building, the payload will be lifted into the orbiter's cargo bay and secured in niches that are custom designed for each piece of space baggage...
...final distinctive features of the launch pad are three massive flame ducts, each 50 ft. high and 70 ft. wide, that will vent the tremendous energy released during lift-offs. Seven seconds before takeoff, an underground pipe 10 ft. in diameter will flood the ducts in less than 30 seconds with about half a million gallons of water. The water will be stored in two tanks. The 6,000° F heat produced by the shuttle will be tamed by the liquid, generating huge billows of steam from the ducts during and after the launch. At Cape Canaveral, the vents...