Word: widens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drafted a bill to make Harvard secede from the nation and to crown Nathan Pusey as King. As a City Councillor in the early 1960's, he got the Council to pass a bill to take Straus, Lehman, and Massachusetts Halls by eminent domain, in order to widen Harvard Square streets. He also sponsored a bill to turn Harvard Yard into a bus and taxi terminal, a suggestion which lost by a four-to-five vote. Vellucci said he would compromise for the fifth crucial vote by calling the site the John Harvard Bus and Taxi Terminal. His single resolution...
...weekly. If he earned that year round, as few do, his annual earnings would be $8,860-or $739 less than the auto worker's average income. The auto workers are now in the fourth week of their own strike, and any settlement they make will widen that gap. Meanwhile, the steel companies' profits are melting because of the auto strike, and the companies will be even less willing than usual to give in to their workers' hard demands...
...United States has never sought to widen the war," said Nixon. "What we seek is to widen the peace...
...sensitive is the Middle East's political seismograph that even as Arab leaders tried to contain the fighting in Jordan, the ripples created by the civil war continued to widen. The radical Baathist governments of Iraq and Syria gave unqualified vocal support to the guerrillas, defying Egypt's suggestion that they stay out of the dispute. "We will not spare one drop of blood to help," said Syrian President Noureddine Atassi. The U.S. and Israel hinted that they might intervene if the regimes in Baghdad and Damascus sent regular troops to reinforce the guerrillas. But at week's end Amman...
...plea for the liberal state would seem antique. In fact, it imposes an extreme ethical nonviolence on the very institution which must monopolize violence. While asking the state to be more pacific, he desires that the small groups become more purposeful, repressive, and disciplined. Ethical laissez-faire would widen for the oppressed the options of limited violence. The state would fulfill the need for a sphere of nonviolence. But if the sovereignty of the state is limited too sharply, if all political groups can move out of the existing politico-legal framework, then the state will lack the power...