Word: widens
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...college students are notorious for being absent at the voting booths on Election Day. Their apathy towards politics leads many political contenders to view college students with equal apathy. Young-adult issues are systematically ignored in campaign platforms as the divide between young people and political process continues to widen...
Miss Maryland is an audience favorite, so when her name is called as a runner-up, the audience reverberates in boos. The selection of Miss Florida Ericka Dunlap comes as a total surprise to pageant watchers. Her enormous eyes widen to massive dimensions as she jumps up and down in ecstasy. Perhaps as proof that the pageant is no longer tainted by racial politics, three African-Americans have made the top 10 (including Redd), two last into the top five, and Miss America is a black woman with a platform of cultural diversity...
...necessary depends on what policies we adopt,” he said. “If we go on the course we’ve been following since the Reagan administration, it’s going to be very necessary—the gaps are going to widen...
Throughout the storms of controversy, Gilligan has quietly defended her book as an early attempt to widen a field that, up to that time, had left half of the population unaccounted...
...title for the third straight year with a perfect 6-0 conference record. The Crimson also finished the year ranked second—just ahead of the Bulldogs—for the second year in a row, but the gap between Trinity and No. 2 appeared to widen. Harvard finished 8-1 overall, the lone blemish on its record an 8-1 drubbing by the Bantam squad, which went on to repeat as national champions...