Word: wide
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With 13 seconds remaining and MIT on a power play, Marshall helped send the game into overtime when he skied out of the pool to intercept a pass intended for a wide-open Engineer in front of the Harvard goal...
Many of the arguments made by the pro-repeal movement are misleading and inaccurate. Despite claims by the Fair Wage Committee, the current law does not establish a state-wide mandate on how much construction workers should be paid; the hourly wage rate is based on local private contracting costs with union labor and can vary across the state...
Liberty Village, the commercial heart of Flemington, is somewhat of a surprise. Meandering over several acres of former farmland, the pleasant re- creation of a colonial marketplace boasts wide brick sidewalks, several luncheon stops and plenty of rest rooms. Long gone are the pipe racks and jumbled bins of second-quality merchandise in dusty warehouses. Since the manufacturers are selling their own goods, the stores are well stocked and well organized. Says Jean Smith, the manager of Liberty Village: "Mostly we have last season's styles and production overruns." Indeed, "Flemington is not competing with K mart," says Fran Durst...
...road and windmills draw up precious water for cattle. On the horizon, dust-shrouded hills appear, blue and mysterious-looking from afar. Roadrunners, heads down and tails up, sprint across the highway. River and road separate here as the Rio Grande, cutting through deep limestone canyons, makes a wide arc that has given this bulge of Texas the nickname Big Bend. Driving south through Alpine and Marfa, I see the border again at Presidio...
...double back 50 miles to the Lajitas Trading Post, an old single-story adobe building with a wide porch, where storekeeper Bill Ivey is preparing for a dance that night that will bring Mexicans and Americans together as informally as is possible anywhere on the border. There are no Customs and Immigration formalities here; Mexicans simply cross the river in a battered aluminum rowboat to shop, have a beer, go to church or, a couple of times a year, step out at an Ivey dance. By 9 p.m. the beat is lively, and more than 100 people, nearly half from...