Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sloan says that she came to realize that Eva, even if she was often cruel and manipulative, was also subject to a wide range of human emotions...
From 1983-86, while the Republicans controlled the Senate, Weicker spearheaded a wide-ranging spending bill through the Labor and Health Appropriations Subcommittee that provided more federal funding for education, healthcare programs and aid to persons with disabilities than the Reagan Administration sought. As chairman of the Small Business Committee, he kept the Reagan Administration from abolishing the Small Business Administration. And while Congress and the White House ignored the AIDS crisis, Weicker successfully led the first battle for Federal funding for research...
Weicker, like his much-maligned conservative counterparts in the Democratic party, showed that the country's two major political parties are broad-based enough to encompass a wide range of views. Contrary to some opinions, America's political parties are not mere interest groups serving the interests of a particular region or social class. With Weicker gone, one has to wonder if this is still the case in the Republican Party, which seems more than ever concerned with preserving homogeneity and presenting a united front to the voters than with engaging in the great internal ideological debates that characterize...
...would give ! a major statement on the issue and then submit to in-depth questioning by a panel of experts in the area. Instead of using the conventional debate format, which puts too much emphasis on one-liners, superficial answers and images, each candidate would appear alone for a wide-open discussion with extensive follow-up. Each appearance (address plus questioning) would take about an hour, and the candidates could be videotaped simultaneously to avoid giving either the advantage of going second. The two presentations could then be broadcast during that week. The idea is to allow the voters...
...wall will be made of dozens of individual gates that can be activated separately. Each unit is an empty steel box, nearly 12 ft. thick, 65 ft. wide and from 55 ft. to 88 ft. high, depending on sea depth. When not in use, the boxes will be filled with water and attached by a hinge to a concrete foundation buried in the lagoon bed. If an abnormally high tide threatens the city, the water inside the gates can be pumped out or displaced by compressed air. Suddenly buoyant, the gates swing on their hinges like the jaws...