Word: wider
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...would be simply content to celebrate their triumph. But while unions and some student groups said President Jacques Chirac's disavowal of the law was enough reason for them to end repeated demonstrations, more hard-core university and political groups pledged to continue staging marches and protests until the wider package of measures the now-defunct law was part of are repealed, including a similar, nine-month-old arrangement giving smaller businesses more flexibility fire young, new workers...
...Springtime, meanwhile, carries the tantalizing possibility of seeing bears emerge from their long hibernation. Whatever the season, there's a Spring Creek safari to match. Half-day excursions start from $85. That's pricier than a movie ticket to Brokeback Mountain, but this is nature on a screen far wider than any cinema...
...might not have been friends with the weird kid, the brainiac, the pretty boy, the bully or the one whose sister got expelled, but they're more complete - and less vulnerable - for having known them. It's this vast network of acquaintances that helps to shrink and demystify the wider world, making it easier, when the time comes, to join...
...songs in Take the Lead span a wider divide: Gershwin and Porter tunes laced with, and sometimes remixed as, hip-hop. The plot elements are virtually the same as in High School Musical: the main boy, who must juggle his old extracurricular activity (here it's thuggery) with a furtive itch to express himself through music; the class-conscious blond who needs a comeuppance; and a climax where three crucial events are occurring with implausible simultaneity. In HSM it's a basketball game, a scholarly competition and the final auditions for the show; in Take the Lead a dance contest...
...address this problem in two ways. First, we inform guidance counselors about HFAI and how it makes Harvard accessible to any student who is academically qualified with the hope that the counselor will invite a wider array of students to the information session. Second, we offer ourselves as personal resources for students as they go through the application process, as students often do not know how to apply to Harvard or have sub-par guidance through the process...