Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...call earth grazers. Holt figures that 1989FC may be in Hermes' league, but other astronomers dispute the claim, saying the new asteroid may be only 100 yds. across. Even if the smaller size is correct, no one would want to have 1989FC land in the backyard. A 100-yd.- wide asteroid hitting the earth at a speed of nearly 50,000 m.p.h. could dig a crater a mile or so across and several hundred feet deep -- similar in size to a gaping hole in the Arizona earth, known as Meteor Crater, that was blasted out some 40,000 years...
Because of a "vocal minority" of students, says Capt. Michael J. Burbach, an instructor in Princeton's Army ROTC unit, ROTC was forced to leave campus in 1971. He says a university-wide vote the following year brought the program back, but without giving ROTC instructors faculty status or allowing its participants to receive academic credit...
...Wide lapels and scratchy polyester suits will become the nation's newest fashion rage...
Almost lost in the stormy debate at last night's Undergraduate Council meeting over the reinstitution of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, the council continued planning for a May concert and the holding of a campus-wide referendum...
...California, a nose ahead of Texas, remains the manufacturing capital of the country, with scores, if not hundreds, of clandestine operations scattered south from Orange County to San Diego and eastward into the Mojave Desert. "The absolute lock the bikers held has been broken, and it's now a wide-open game, with every player for himself," says Larry Bruce, a lean, bearded Orange County criminal lawyer and former public defender celebrated by the biker fraternity for his courtroom skills...