Word: widens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more important "Super Bowl" next week, when 540 Democratic delegates will be elected in California, New Jersey and Ohio. He is expected to lose California to Brown but still pick up many of the state's delegates. In Ohio, he maintained his lead, which he was trying to widen by aggressive campaigning. But in New Jersey, his lead became more fragile when his opponents-a slate of uncommitted delegates-made a double-barreled endorsement of Humphrey and Brown...
Help--the way it has since World War II? The vast American loans, which the author of Berlinguer and the Professor, along with most Americans, envision as the mainstay of the Italian economy, have indeed contributed to an economic boom; one which has served only to widen the gap between rich and poor in Italy. The greatest amount of American "aid" has probably been CIA payoffs, Lockheed graft, or similar bribes to the ruling political structure, the Christian Democrats. This money promptly crossed the frontier into Swiss banks. Italy is still poor, though the politicians who populate the pages...
...University should widen the student health insurance plan to include all maternity benefits--both delivery and abortion costs. To decline to do so is to refuse responsibility for all students' welfare, a refusal that belies the concept of health insurance...
...look" of Communism genuine? Some political observers think it could be and argue that bringing Communists into Western governments might speed their conversion from revolutionary, potentially disruptive outsiders to evolutionary insiders. It might also widen the gap between the local parties and Moscow. The Soviets, in fact, do not conceal their irritation with the independence shown by some of their Western comrades. Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev recently complained that "some have begun to interpret [proletarian internationalism] in such a way that little is left to internationalism...
...evenly. Henriette may have been frank in her displeasure with Georges, but he can dish it out too. Looking at the lady on her deathbed, he writes, "You haven't aged in my eyes. You've always had that thin face, that lusterless complexion, those lips that widen now and then...