Word: widener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mallory admits two tall black men delivering a huge brown, metal free-standing closet. They struggle to angle the closet through the darkened hallway to place it in Michael's and Eileen's room. Mallory's plan is to rip out built-in drawers in the hallway, and thus widen it into a dining room. The immediate effect of the alteration is to make Michael's room impossible to enter. Mallory touches his head again. "Smart, right...
...THIS DICHOTOMY between the civil and military fields that best illustrates the inequality such a draft would foster. While the plan does and should aim at egalitarianism among those drafted, it cannot avoid discriminating against those without certain skills. It would certainly, as did the Vietnam-era draft, widen the gap between the privileged and non-privileged in society...
...interrupt the tax-reform deliberations, he saw that the package was in danger of unraveling. The Ways and Means Committee rejected proposals by Reagan and Rostenkowski and voted to allow taxpayers who do not itemize deductions to continue to write off donations to charity. Moreover, the committee opted to widen a $2.9 billion loophole for commercial banks that the President and its chairman sought to close. It decided not to abolish a tax deduction for banks on money reserved to cover possible bad debts. Instead the committee increased the banks' tax break by $4.7 billion over the next three years...
World Bank President A.W. Clausen, the former chairman of Bank of America, had tried for several years to widen his institution's responsibility, but he was rebuffed by the White House. Ironically, just as the Administration is adopting some of his views, Clausen said last week that he will leave office at the end of his term in July. Clausen, 62, had expressed an interest in staying longer, but the Administration apparently believes he lacks the dynamism for the job. The White House wants to nominate another official, possibly Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker...
...Dartmouth's next possession, its punter fumbled the snap on his 12-yd. line, giving the Crimson another chance to widen the lead--which it did. Wingback John Manning's run into the end zone, aided by a good block by Roy Lackey, increased Harvard's advantage...