Word: wider
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prison tours open to the public, including reporters. There were a few catches: no cameras, no tape recorders, no interviews with inmates and no access at all to the Little Greystone building. The station pressed its suit, and a federal district court ordered the sheriff to grant the press wider access...
...more about. But anticipatory boredom can lead to being sated by a subject without having fully explored it. When the news trails off but the space or the air time to be filled is as large as ever, an editor's eyes cannot glaze; they have to open wider...
Other first-line schools-St. Paul's (497 students, $46 million endowment), Groton (300 students, $17.7 million), Deerfield (558, $21 million), Lawrenceville (700, $24 million), Hotchkiss (478, $10.4 million), and Choate Rosemary Hall (920, $11.7 million)-have also sought a wider range of students. Limited resources, rather than any residue of snobbery, keep them from reaching further. Inflation has forced all of them into massive money-raising efforts and budget tightening. The admissions picture is more bullish, thanks partly to the declining quality of public schools. Applications are up at top prep schools, and the percentage of children...
...were tallied, in fact, all the major parties gave the government an overwhelming vote of confidence (522 members in favor, 27 opposed, 3 abstentions) for its seven-week-old antiterrorist decree. The measure raises the penalty for a kidnaping-homicide to life imprisonment and gives Italy's police wider arrest and interrogation powers...
Genovese, author of "The World the Slaveholders Made," believes that the new journal will allow him to disseminate Marxist ideas to a wider audience than he reached with his books. "Not everyone is interested in slaves and a lot of people will read the journal who didn't read my books," Genovese said...