Word: widely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shuttle is waiting would be strapped into the catapult while adjustments were made for wind, weather and any buildings recently constructed on the flight path. If all goes well, the student would then be flung over half of Cambridge to his or her destination, landing in a thirty-foot-wide catcher's mitt specially constructed near the other catapult. In addition to their regular duties, for the betterment of Quad-river relations, the catapult operators would be allowed to seize any river-dwelling student who is heard to say "You live in the Quad? I've never even been there...
Guinier said her involvement with racial issues was actually only a part of a wide array of interests, which also includedemocratic theory, and legal education...
Students remarked on the breadth of the address, which covered a wide range of domestic and international issues, from giving all Americans the opportunity to go to college to enlarging NATO...
...example, the CEO of General Motors sat down with the officials of the NFL one day back in the '50s or '60s and said, "Whaddya say we try the old bread-and-circuses scam?" On the contrary, I believe Americans went into sports mania willingly and with their eyes wide open. There is a human need, perhaps especially in a culture that routinely pits each against all in a relentless competition for parking spaces and aisle seats, to achieve the ecstatic merger with the mass represented by the wave or the chop. Besides, if this is the old Roman bread...
...performances were culled from hundreds of hours of recordings by Sedgwick Clark, a musicologist and critic, who has sought to showcase the Philharmonic's sustained virtuosity in a wide range of repertoire evenly distributed over its broadcast seasons. Listening to the selections (and reading the 144-page book of essays, interviews and notes) provides a rare opportunity to experience the changing approaches to music-making and the evolution of recording technology over the past 75 years. (The set, which retails for $185, is available at select Tower Records stores, or it can be ordered directly from the orchestra by phone...