Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particularly delighted to announce the election of a woman to the Corporation," President Bok said in a release. "Our ten-month nation-wide search brought to the attention of the Board an outstanding group of men and women. Of them all, Mrs. Hope appeared to possess the special combination of training, experience and personal attributes that we were seeking...
...that, the INS announced last week that it plans to dig a $2 million ditch along a four-mile stretch of border near San Diego, where some 300,000 illegal aliens were apprehended last year. INS officials maintain that the ditch, 5 ft. deep and 14 ft. wide, will frustrate high-speed car dashes across the border, which now average 400 a month, and * also help correct drainage problems in the area. A report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform supported the idea of the ditch. "Locking uninvited gate-crashers out," it said, "is just good common sense. Everyone...
Voyager has always been scrupulous about releasing wide-screen films in "letter-box" format (masking the top and bottom of the screen to duplicate the breadth of the theatrical image), and this idea too is catching on. MGM is marketing lavish wide-screen editions of Doctor Zhivago and Ben- Hur, and 20th Century Fox will put out the Star Wars trilogy, as well as the recent smash Die Hard, in the full-frame format. Even E.T. was letter- boxed on disc, and Spielberg's earlier 1941, when it arrives on disc this summer, will be in wide screen and contain...
Also that month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Attorney's office closed, without any major indictments, a wide-ranging 2 1/2-year investigation into Boston real estate that included the State Street project. But federal investigators never questioned Bulger. Shannon refused to launch a state-wide probe, but instead requested that U.S. Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh review the case...
...December, council members voted down a constitutional amendment that would have made the chairperson elected by the student body instead of by the council. The council deferred to students on the issue, voting to hold a binding, campus-wide referendum this spring...