Word: widening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bond glanced up across the baccarat board and allowed his smile to widen into a yawn. "I'll cover the bet with this Fabergé egg if you don't very much mind...
Starting with their opposition to plans to widen Memorial Drive by chopping down its stately sycamore trees, the neighborhood's residents had their greatest success in opposing plans to build the John F. Kennedy '40 Library on a site Kennedy himself had selected near the Kennedy School of Government--plans that were strongly backed by then-City Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci...
Laws like the "squeal rule," requiring federally supported clinics to notify parents when they give contraceptives to minors [Feb. 7], will widen the existing gap between parent and teenager. Girls who seek professional guidance should not have their privacy violated. It is far wiser to have a girl 16 and counseled than 16 and pregnant...
Congress continued to widen its investigation to cover all of the EPA's enforcement efforts. Called before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Gorsuch was accused of trying to cripple the agency through budget reductions. As the "Ice Queen" defended her stormy tenure, her eyes misted with a few rare tears. "Nobody can be wrong all that much of the time," she said. "I have to judge that a great deal of it is political harassment...
...Congress was not convinced. At week's end Dingell's subcommittee voted to widen the Superfund probe by issuing new subpoenas for testimony from Lavelle, Gorsuch and 35 other EPA employees, plus dozens of additional documents. Democratic Congressman James J. Howard of New Jersey, chairman of the House Public Works Committee, demanded an FBI investigation of a recently installed paper shredder outside Lavelle's office that the EPA said had been used to destroy "excess copies" of documents withheld from the House. The EPA told Scheuer that Lavelle's appointment calendars, which he had subpoenaed...