Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Axtell was no joker. He cut a deal and got Warner to donate an official Batman jacket as a prize in a city-wide contest to come up with a new name for the five-year-old program...
...ivory can be used, for example, in Japanese signature seals, and wedding ornaments are fashioned from the shells of endangered hawksbill turtles. Japanese fishermen have drawn impassioned criticism for their use of huge drift nets across vast expanses of the Pacific. The nets, which are up to 40 miles wide, are intended to catch squid and tuna, but also entangle many other kinds of fish as well as seabirds and marine mammals. Roger McManus, president of the Washington-based Center for Marine Conservation, has gone so far as to call the Japanese "environmental terrorists...
...skimmer. Finally, the devices are all but useless when confronted with a devastatingly large spill like the Valdez disaster. Once the oil had spread over the vast Prince William Sound, a boat towing a skimmer needed fully 14 hours to clear one narrow swath across the 35-mile-wide bay. The chemical dispersants often used in oil cleanups have problems too. They cannot function in calm water, and because they are toxic, they can seriously damage fish and wildlife...
...those who prefer a little rougher brand of play, try the National Hockey League, sometimes referred to as the World-Wide Wrestling Federation II. Bad blood flows fast and quick at NHL games these days, but the Boston Bruins regularly rank as one of the top teams in the league...
Epps is also in charge of a wide range of tasks servicing the student body, ranging from officially recognizing student organizations to bailing undergraduates out of the Cambridge city jail...