Word: widely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scares me," said Jack Hills, an astronomer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. "It really does." He and the rest of the world had good reason to be worried. Astronomer Brian Marsden at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics had just announced that a newly discovered asteroid a mile wide was headed for Earth and might pass as close as 30,000 miles in the year 2028. "The chance of an actual collision is small," Marsden reported, "but not entirely out of the question...
...actual collision? With a mile-wide asteroid? It sounded like the stuff of science fiction and grade-B movies. But front-page stories and TV newscasts around the world soon made clear that the possibility of a direct hit and a global catastrophe well within the lifetime of most people on Earth today was all too real...
...just try to let them know that there's a wide range of prices on hotels and that the rate does reflect what you're getting for the hotel room," Brown said, noting that those concerned about having a good time should remember, "you can get nice hotels if you're willing to spend some money...
SHOULD WINCameron's a pro and deserved one of these for Aliens. But this year, my vote's for Atom Egoyan, who communicated in The Sweet Hereafter an entire town's experience of a single event, exerting a rigorous, wide-ranging psychological acuity for which Cameron didn't even...
...dark at some vast, cosmic Fleetwood Mac concert." Yet often his quirky comparisons go one step too far and cross over the line between the clever and the ridiculous. After Karen falls into a coma, Richard reminisces about how the remains of high school "flowed by like a wide, slow, pulsing river of cool chocolate milk." All this absurdity is tolerable, even amusing, so long as it doesn't also strive to be deep...