Word: widener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DEFROCKED. THE REV. JIMMY CREECH, 55, United Methodist pastor who officiated at the union of lesbian and gay couples; in Grand Island, Neb. Creech said the verdict would "widen the wound of the soul" of the nation's third largest Christian church...
...economics at Stanford University, heartily agrees on the state of America's (and the Internet's) socioeconomic divide: "My guess is it's going to be just like internal combustion on the farm," he says. "If there isn't a change in investments in skills, it will actually widen...
...What ties the broad range of research workthat's done here together is that every individualpursues scholarship and pure research for its ownsake, and follows his own research interests,"said Georgia Widen, public affair officer for theInstitute. "There isn't any concern whatsoever forapplications. No one is ever asked what is goingto be the practical effect of their work...
...Widen said the institute is a "scholarlyparadise" at which intellectuals, frequentlyvisiting professors, are given a year without thedemands of classroom or committee work to focus onresearch...
...plans. "We've just decided to give them as little information as possible," he said on the NewsHour last week. There have been cracks in the armor: some Pentagon officials were upset when the Washington Post reported, two days in advance of an attack, that the U.S. planned to widen air strikes to target ministries in Belgrade...