Word: widener
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...M.F.A.). The split was so serious that it could easily lead to the resignation of the Communist-lining Premier, Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, and the beginning of a more moderate national policy that the vast majority of the Portuguese people would wholeheartedly welcome. But it could also widen to the point of civil...
...Egyptians are well aware of the new realities of the shipping business, and are already planning to deepen and widen the canal to take bigger ships. Within three years they hope to accommodate ships of 53-ft. draft and 150,000 tons fully loaded (v. the present maximums of 38 ft. and 60,000 tons); within six years they want to be able to take ships of 67-ft. draft and 260,000 tons...
...Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, no subject has been too cosmic, no issue too complex. In the past 16 years, the center has boldly sought to "clarify the basic issues and widen the circle of discussion about them." An offshoot of the Fund for the Republic, an organization dedicated to defending civil liberties, the center was organized by Robert Hutchins, iconoclastic former president of the University of Chicago. Amidst the seaside splendor of a 43-acre Mediterranean-style estate in Santa Barbara, Calif., the center's scholars pursued Hutchins' formidable goal. An average of three mornings...
...wondering way, never leaves any doubt that in the end she'll give in, she'll assimilate in the most predictable way possible, not with a bang but with a whimper. Sylvia Kristel as Emmanuelle is tall and leggy but her only notion of acting seems to be to widen her eyes. As in the most hard-core pornography, a threadbare plot exists only to bring on more skin and to make the idea of watching people make love for two hours seem continually purposeful and slightly less absurd...
...American economy depends on the oil companies for all of its petroleum, which fulfills over 40 per cent of its energy needs, and for much of its coal, which supplies about 20 per cent of the nation's energy. It is now in the national interest to widen and vary America's energy sources but the oil companies do not want such diversification. The introduction of new synthetic sources of energy would reduce both the major companies' profits and their control over the market...