Word: wide
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NSEA and CAST officials says they are involved in a wide range of activities, from developing computer equipment and other technology to fit each individual's special day-to-day needs, to helping to create curricula and learning programs for such students. Rose says that equipment needs to be specially adapted for each individual, and that there are no standard instruments to recommend...
...have been almost totally depleted of oxygen, known as dead zones, are proliferating. As many as 1 million fluke and flounder were killed earlier this summer when they became trapped in anoxic water in New Jersey's Raritan Bay. Another huge dead zone, 300 miles long and ten miles wide, is adrift in the Gulf of Mexico...
...tremendous difference is going to be on the national security of this country, how to deal with the major world problems and who best to sit across * the table from Gorbachev or a wide array of other leaders, who best to lead the alliance, who has enough confidence and experience to chart a course for the future. My case to the American people is, that's me. I'd be better at this than Michael Dukakis...
Consolation prizes. Unless Jackson really wants a Cabinet job in a Dukakis Administration, Mario Cuomo is one leading Democrat who believes such a post would be too restrictive for Jackson's wide-ranging talents. Explains the New York Governor: "I'd rather see him free to move around and be involved in a whole series of issues." As for Dukakis' choice of a running mate, Cuomo notes, "I would not have chosen Bentsen. But now that he made that choice and you see the reaction, you say to yourself, 'The Dukakis people are smarter than I thought.' Dukakis is showing...
...most impressive sculpture at this Biennale, however, is in the English pavilion: a survey of work by Tony Cragg, 39. It issues from a strong and wide-darting imagination. Cragg's sculpture is richly polymorphous, refusing to be pinned down in any style and incorporating such materials as bits of blue plastic scrap, bronze, wood, lab glass, plaster, cogwheels, rubber and sandstone. At times the results look mysteriously vulnerable and reserved, like Silicate, 1988, an array of laboratory beakers and bottles, sandblasted until holes appear in their milky skins. Other pieces are farcical: Code Noah is Cragg's gloss...