Word: widest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plan to maintain the widest stock of non-alcoholic brews available," said Meltzer. "Basically, we want to be able to say something other than 'no' when people walk in the door and ask for beer," he added...
...very nature of capitalism militates against a stable snobbery: the capitalist seeks the widest possible market; quality chases the dollars of the mob, but when the mob buys en masse, the illusion of quality, of specialness, vanishes. With metaphysical complexity, the makers of Lacoste shirts have understood this, and are making Lacoste shirts that have no alligator on them, stroke, spectacular instance of self-supersession. In one stroke, Lacoste has taken snobbery into another dimension...
...face of it, things are not that complicated. The thrust of the tenure system administrators have said, is to ensure the widest possible effort to recruit the very best in a given field. To this end, an elaborate system of checks and balances in place since the 1930s, has been created regard against "insidership" and to make sure candidates are judged strictly on their merits as scholars and teachers, not their political skills. (Some professors maintain, however, that the tenure process in certain departments have mailed the budget process on Capitol Hill...
...still a waking nightmare, but at least a little daylight has been let in. The physical wounding and emotional trauma are now discussed openly. America is being educated; more stringent laws and penalties are now in effect and reflect a greater understanding of the crime. But feminism, in its widest application, is still a home-front revolution, and it is in the apartment, the tract house and the split-level that its greatest impact has been felt...
...RADCLIFFE has a problem in making its mission known to its undergraduates, almost everyone agrees that the widest lack of understanding and interest lies among the freshmen. Since most of the less obvious aspects of Radcliffe have not had time to reach them, many freshman express bewilderment. "I don't even think of Radcliffe," says Delia B. Pooler '82, "only when I write letters--you know return addresses." "Radcliffe means being quadded," adds Eleanor S. Pollak '85, "I just think of the yard up there with Agassiz," Lillis E. Grove '85 says, "I don't know what they do except...