Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...return for spending about eight hours a week on household chores, co-op students are guaranteed a wide range of benefits, from home-cooked meals that surpass standard dining hall fare to single rooms, their own laundry room and a continuous supply of beer provided by the "beer czar" whose duty is to keep the refrigerator well-stocked...
...inspiring example to be followed where economic pressures can be influential. At the same time, however, it is important to note that this technique probably cannot change situations where violence is used for political purposes, as in EI Salvador, Nicaragua or Nambia. But within the United States, a wide range of nonviolent sanctions do exist, and the Nestle boycott proves that such methods can be put to good...
...contrast, Bundy's successor, historian Franklin L. Ford, concentrated on the expansion of Harvard's undergraduate applicant pool, which reached nation wide proportions in the 1960's. His reign came to an end in the late '60s, when student turbulence swept college campuses...
Within a few blocks of each other are several Catholic churches, including the area's largest, the Sacred Heart Church. In addition to being places of worship, the churches serve as focal points for a wide array of community activities...
...track humor slides in and out of straight-faced paragraphs so deftly you hardly realize you've been stung. The author reports of an unhurried race horse, for instance, that "Sterling Drive broke from the rail, with infinite care, and headed directly for the parking lot, going so wide on the first turn that several fans groaned." The deftness and dryness here, an infinitely careful nag, indeed, is worthy of Red Smith...