Word: widener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...often awesome imagery and a bravely soaring choral score by James Horner that transfigure the reality, granting it the status of necessary myth. Broad, bold, blunt, Glory is everything that a film like Miss Daisy, all nuance and implication, is not. But arriving together, they somehow hearten: they widen the range of our responses to what remains the central issue of our past, our present, our future...
...first thing to do is widen the terms of debate. According to the University, the reason there are so few minority and women professors is that the pool of women and minorities with Ph.D. s is too small. And that's true. And that should become a major component of the issue...
...pundit George Gilder in his new book, Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology (Simon & Schuster; $19.95), a lively look at the history and prospects of the U.S. microelectronics industry. Gilder, author of the best-selling Wealth and Poverty, thinks that as computer-chip technology advances, America will widen its lead...
...remember the Crusaders. You know, the guys who try an on-side kick to protect their 30-point leads? And run flea-flickers to widen their 40-point edges...
...possible sharing of information has become a focal point in recent weeks as the Justice Department continues to widen a probe into alleged price-fixing by universities in setting tuitions, student financial aid and faculty salaries...