Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bunting indicated that the new policy to tighten restrictions might be linked with current events. As an article stated, "she stressed, however, that much of the Harvard Dean's concern could have been touched off by the country-wide publicity that the problems of premairital sex have received in the past three years...
...huge webs of strong nylon mesh, known as drift nets, can cover a slice of ocean up to 40 miles wide and 40 ft. deep. In North Pacific waters, fishermen from Japan, South Korea and Taiwan routinely let the nets float for as long as nine hours at night. They are intended to catch squid, but they also scoop up sea turtles, porpoises, seals, birds and various kinds of fish. Environmentalists call them killer nets and accuse those who use them of "strip-mining" the ocean...
...Wright, the sinking Speaker of the House, summoned the media to say he was delighted that the big hearing this Tuesday on his motion to dismiss charges of breaking House rules will be wide open and televised. This after he and his phalanx of lawyers spent ten days fighting to keep the session off the screen. The monster just would not heel. Television will likely encourage...
...industry-wide ferment is certain to continue, however, as hundreds of small cable operators merge into regional units or sell out to the giants. Ultimately, the number of systems could dwindle to a handful. "The same thing happened in the movie industry 50 years ago," says Robert Thomson, Tele- Communications' vice president for government relations. "They once had many more studios." With that prospect in mind, the major cable companies are scrambling today to make sure they do not wind up on the cutting-room floor tomorrow...
...wanted to play Henry Jones as a kind of Sir Richard Burton," Connery says. "There was so much behind him and so many hidden elements in his life." In the beginning Henry speaks to his long-lost son slowly, with wide eyes and grand gestures, as if Indy were a child in need of gentle remedial education. "I was bound to have fun with the role of a gruff, Victorian Scottish father," Connery says of Henry (remember, the Jones family hails from Utah). "And have fun I did -- so much so that I told Harrison, 'If you give...