Word: widens
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Washington. Last week, after meeting in Rome with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Curran told a press conference that the Vatican has judged his views on sexual ethics unacceptable. That could lead to his dismissal from the university and widen a growing rift between Rome and the Americans...
...mentality stuck throughout the middle 1,000 meters of the race. The Crimson increased its lead over its two fading opponents, supplying enough pressure to continually widen the margin in the second half of the course...
...best to start thinking about those features when you first sit down to draw up plans for your new dream home. You'll save yourself plenty of cash if you widen the hallway in the blueprint phase rather than after the house has been built. "It costs $6 a door extra to put in a wider, 36-in. door in new construction, but if you remodel, it costs $650 per door," says Susan Mack, a universal-design consultant in Murietta, Calif...
...reservations. Popular rule is great for government, but in this case I was a little worried about the tyranny of the majority. My peers generally know as little about beer as I do about cosmopolitans, so I was afraid that these House votes would only widen the selection available in Loker to Dos Equis and, gasp, Red Hook. Lo and behold, not even these modest heights were reached. The most interesting beer to come out of the House votes was Magic Hat #9, and nothing from Sierra Nevada even made the cut. Cabot House should be wiped off the beer...
...TIME, James Agee looked ahead: "With the controlled splitting of the atom, humanity, already profoundly perplexed and disunified, was brought inescapably into a new age in which all thoughts and things were split--and far from controlled." Agee was anticipating an opposition between people and their invention that would widen rapidly as the century continued, until eventually Americans would almost come to believe that the Bomb had invented itself. The new age would be seen not as a time of what people did, but of what was done to them...