Word: widening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Department of Energy predicts that by 1985, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah will produce 316 million tons of coal a year, compared with 22 million tons in 1967. After the digging is finished, the whole landscape will have to be rebuilt. "We'll just widen the valley some and drop the hills," says George Larsen of Arco, "and the land will just be 40 feet lower...
...changes to the single automobile seat of Dark Pony, the gaps of ambiguity widen. A father recites a familiar fairytale to his young daughter as they drive home in the car. Brown and Zito are convincing enough, but the point of the play is muddy. When they repeat the same scene after Reunion, the tale is again unclear, and a little annoying. A juxtaposition of two stages of a relationship, maybe, but they are not even the same relationship. Perhaps Samuels thought Reunion too short and heavy in its transcendant minimalism, and so included the other; otherwise, there seems little...
...outside ventures. Across every aspect of academic life, the DNA company decision stirs long-dormant questions about Faculty members' relationships to the outside world in consulting, publishing, political advising, jockeying for government and foundation grants, and professional practice. In their debates, the Faculty and the Corporation ought to widen their focus and consider how, in each of these areas, the interaction of academicians and the outside world can sometimes compromise academic values...
...close to $250 million, and even Harvard now admits that the plant is going to lose money. Why is it that the DEQE appeal process which has helped Harvard to progressivly narrow the decision down to a mere question of hotspots hasn't simultaneously enabled the opponents to widen the evaluation so that we can consider whether the Chapter 121A approval is still justified? In short, whatever the merits may be for a flexible hearing and appeal procedure, that enables the agency to be open enough to consider changes in the proposal--changes that of necessity narrow the subject being...
...southern end of the Persian Gulf. That 36-mile-wide channel has been the lifeline for some 40% of the non-Communist world's total supply. Experts fear that the price of oil could soar beyond $100 per bbl., triple the current price, if the war were to widen or the strait were to be closed...