Word: widens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Undergraduate Council Chair Malcolm A. Heinicke '93 lobbied the city for a pathway through the Common, saying that "It would not take a great deal of effort to widen the paths" to accommodate both bikers and walkers...
...excel in mass-produced, low-margin areas like basic memory chips, U.S. companies are focusing on devices with more functions and higher profits. American semiconductor firms, for example, have always maintained a comfortable lead in microprocessors, the "brains" of computers, with about 90% of that market. The gap could widen even further, as U.S. companies roll out new products. Last week Digital Equipment introduced the new Alpha chip, which the Guinness Book of World Records anointed as the fastest microprocessor on the market. But the Americans are also reclaiming lost ground in memory chips. Intel, for instance, is the major...
...Carnegie Foundation indicates that the current implementation may actually widen gaps between the rich and poor. It contends that better-educated parents tend to take advantage of the system more readily than those less informed, by transferring their children to schools with more resources. This has left some worried that school choice will create "bottom-of-the-barrel schools...
...campaign trail Watt traverses his odd-shaped district -- it looks like a road-kill salamander -- in a shiny Dodge minivan, stopping to shake hands, wolf down fried fish and cheese puffs at dinnertime rallies, and spread his message: "We can't continue to widen the disparity between the haves at the top and the have-nots at the bottom." Watt well knows the have-not side of that great divide. He grew up near Charlotte in a tin-roofed home with no electricity or running water. But he went on to law school at Yale and a career...
...Mark K. Widen '92 and Catherine Brown '91 were told Monday that they were successful in their application to the program...