Word: wider
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...petition's supporters said they see the U.N.'s inaction in Bosnia as symptomatic of a wider problem...
...Arafat and his Gaza-based Palestinian Authority. Donors agreed to provide $125 million through next March to cover Arafat's budget deficit, plus $23 million to create jobs. Meanwhile, Israel transferred the responsibilities for taxation and health services in the West Bank to the Palestinian Authority in preparation for wider self-rule there...
...while convinced her of the need to know something about business. While earning her M.B.A. at Tulane University, she unearthed an obscure federal rule that would provide government money to qualified rural health clinics. Suddenly, in addition to her medical chores in Bayou La Batre, she was performing a wider-ranging function as an adviser to other small, medically underserved towns looking to open facilities. This, in turn, led her to a seat on the Alabama Medical Association's governing board and the state public-health and medical examiners' boards. She presents this progression toward ever greater responsibility and authority...
...Such hopes, always frail, evaporated last week. They have been replaced by fear of a wider war, one that may bring the national army of Croatia back into the battle against the Serbs. The fighting around Bihac exemplifies the ethnic confusion of Bosnia. Bihac is surrounded by Serbs, but because it sits at what is now an international border, the Serbs to the north and west -- self- proclaimed rulers of the Krajina region -- are in Croatia, while the ones to the east and south are in Bosnia...
...education and political chair Veronica S. Jung '97, the legislation is "a sign of the wider tide of anti-immigrant sentiment." It is an issue that Asian-Americans at Harvard should be concerned with, she says...