Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report's emphasis on structure and avoidance of measures which would make departments accountable for their deficient hiring practices sets up a wide range of possible outcomes--from substantial progess to continued smug inaction...
Although Collins says being a woman never stopped her from succeeding in the wily world of politics, it has made things more difficult. She says that before becoming governor, she had a wide base of support from voters and legislators, but many still questioned a woman's abilities to run a state...
...said he thinks that a grassroots effort by house masters and house committees to encourage discussion of attitudes toward gay, lesbian and bisexual issues would be more effective than a College-wide program on homophobia...
Only minutes earlier, 886 electors had cast ballots approving Yeltsin's candidacy for city-wide representative to the Congress of People's Deputies, a recently created legislature that Mikhail Gorbachev is counting on to boost his floundering reform drive. Yeltsin's success was a signal turnabout. Sixteen months ago, Gorbachev ousted the Moscow party boss after he passionately attacked the slow pace of Soviet reform. Last week Yeltsin overcame that taint as one of two candidates to survive the emotional twelve- hour meeting called to decide how many of ten proposed candidates would appear on the ballot for Moscow...
...Forum makes one long for a full-scale Broadway revival. The dance suite of teen gang wars adapted from West Side Story actually benefits by being divorced from the original's cute, coy lyrics, which in life would not tumble trippingly from the tongues of underprivileged youth. The wide-eyed wonder of city life may never have been more vibrantly shown than among the World War II-era sailors aprowl in On the Town. The comic chase among cops, con men, thugs and bathing beauties from High Button Shoes improves upon the fizzy Mack Sennett one-reelers that inspired...