Word: wide
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...public whose lives they have affected, and especially in touch with young people." The addresses will be given twice a year at colleges or universities picked by the speakers, who will be drawn from the worlds of politics, government, science, religion and the arts. They will represent a wide range of political and philosophic views and, it is hoped, will provoke lively discussion and debate between the newsmakers and their student audiences...
...most important one of all: When the voting starts, will people line up behind Walter Mondale? Despite the gathering momentum of his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, skeptics note that Mondale has not aroused the electorate, that his support, in the words of one, is "a mile wide and an inch thick." Another doubter likens Mondale's campaign to a glass train: one bump, and it is sure to shatter...
...slower, less-experienced Canadians held the mighty Soviets scoreless for more than half the game by dropping four players back into their own zone, allowing the Soviets to control play but never giving them wide-open opportunities. When the Soviets got in range, goalie Mario Gosselin was superb...
...between situations. "In comedy," Zieff says, "You are recruiting some body who already has the talent and the facility of delivering. All you, as a director, have to know is what you want and how to express it...." In this case, Zieff gives Moore enough room to reveal a wide range of comic talents without turning the movie into an extended stand-up routine...
...name that emerged from Bok's secret deliberations furthermore is little known to most undergraduates. This is not, of course, a necessary pre-requisite for the job. But Michael Spence has not gained a world-wide reputation for an unusual interest in the affairs of undergraduates, and indeed the little administrative experience he does have--be it running the Ec Department or the University's Ph.D. in business research program--involved mostly graduate students, researchers, and professors. In fact. Spence has not taught an undergraduate course in recent years...