Word: widest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SUMMER MOVIES ARRIVE THIS YEAR WEARing a big Smile button. In a kinder, gentler mood (and facing a shrinking, glutted market), moguls have resolved to appeal to the widest possible audience. So the violence in action movies gets toned down one calculated notch, to snag a PG or PG-13 rating, and sex is soft-focused into romance...
...privilege of playing host to 43 young women, and the day was packed with activities. They sat in on an editorial meeting, watched art directors design a page of the magazine and found out how the publishing and marketing staff make sure our reporting and writing reach the widest possible audience. We wanted to include girls who weren't technically the daughters of staff members, and to give those on our staff without daughters the chance to act as sponsors. So goddaughters came too, as did family friends. And thanks to the efforts of editorial assistant Breena Clarke and marketing...
DUBBED A MERE "PLANNING CONFERENCE," THE gathering was in fact historic. When negotiations resumed near Johannesburg after a nine-month deadlock, the meeting included 26 delegates from the widest spectrum of antagonists ever put together on South African soil. Besides the African National Congress and the governing National Party, the talks included such ex-boycotters as the apartheid-forever Conservative Party and the black-power Pan Africanist Congress. The conferees reached agreement on the agenda's main item: a resumption by April 5 of formal talks on constitutional issues like power sharing. Said A.N.C. secretary-general Cyril Ramaphosa: "A torch...
...coffee for our production supervisor, Patrick R. Sorrento (that's a large with three creams and three sugars--get it right), and late night food for the rest of the evening's production staff. Now they will have to search the street for the best coffee and widest selection of food...
...geography is different. In the Sinai, 250 km of desert separate Israel from that part of Egypt west of Suez. The widest area that separates us from the Syrians on the Golan is 23 km. I have said that I am ready to add a territorial dimension to the negotiations, but I don't want to negotiate the size of it before I know that Syria is ready for a peace that is not conditional on a comprehensive peace. We always strive for a comprehensive peace, but it has to be built on bilateral bridges. If we do not reach...