Word: wider
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...without dwelling on the obvious, a huge social and cultural rift divides these two people. And the rift is becoming wider...
...highly learned scholar in his field and at the same time one of the leading figures in a wider intellectual debate," the release said. "He is both and economist of a remarkable technical competence and an authoritative contributor to contemporary discussion of epistemology and ethics...
Officials said Baker outlined his plans for a wider political role for NATO. His plan, unveiled in Berlin on Monday, foresees the alliance as a permanent monitor of the reductions being discussed in Vienna and as a mediator of regional conflicts...
Within the United States today, the richest one percent of the population now owns over half the wealth in this country and the richest 10 percent owns over 80 percent of the wealth (excluding home ownership). The gap between the rich and the poor is growing wider. Further, with the recent "merger mania" and the incredible growth of huge, multinational corporations, a handful of corporate executives now exercise unprecedented power over the economic life of the nation...
...ultimate loss to art's hyperinflation may be wider and less tangible than this. Quite rightly, MOMA's Varnedoe rejects the idea that "there was some mythical period, now lost, when art was seen only as the shining purity of aesthetic experience. As long as there has been art to sell, art has been something to buy." But he, like many others, is worried by "the crazy sense of disproportion in the world that puts an extra glow on the art object...