Word: widens
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Trudeau has sought to widen his support by actively courting both the left and labor, making him sound at times more like an N.D.P. leader than a fiscally cautious Liberal. In his new image as champion of the leftist causes, he has struck out at the "myth" that high wage demands by unions have contributed to inflation. "It has not been the average working man who has exerted upward pressure on prices," he claimed earlier this month. At the same time, he has begun lambasting the "big guys," the multinational corporations. "We will not allow profiteers to pile up unearned...
Finally, a group of colleagues who must work closely together must have a certain amount of mutual trust. At the senior faculty level, Harvard protects itself against the obvious dangers of cronyism by the ad hoc committee system; and Affirmative Action procedures often do widen the pool and diminish the potency of the old boy network. But there are costs in the policy of recruiting on an individualistic basis without regard to catalytic quality; and the moral and intellectual quality of a university must be seen as living in precarious tension among competing values. David Riesman...
Beyond restoring the canal to its pre-June 1967 condition, Egypt faces a billion-dollar decision: whether or not to widen and deepen the waterway to accommodate the new larger ships, including some supertankers. The canal now can handle ships with a maximum draft of 38 ft.-70,000-ton craft carrying full loads of cargo and 140,000-tonners riding empty. An enlarged canal could take fully loaded ships with a draft of 71 ft. and a weight of 260,000 tons, or any ship now afloat empty...
...Celtics Jumped to a 25-19 first period lead on the shooting of Jo Jo White and John Havlicek. They managed to cling to the advantage, and widen the margin to nine points midway through the second period before the Bullets began their comeback...
McMahon opened the scoring at 1:06 of the second period when he popped the puck into an open net from the left side of the crease after Ciresi had been drawn to the right. Ted Thorndike took a pass from Leigh Hogan and converted at 13:29 to widen Harvard's lead to two goals...