Word: wider
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...plan would eliminate the General Education program for a much wider distribution requirement, and abolish compulsory expository writing...
Last week's bombing raids signal jut the opposite-much more clearly than the Cambodian invasion. The master plan, according to Washington sources, calls for a continued presence of a smaller troop commitment over the next several years, bolstered by increasing and wider bombing pressure to keep the North Vietnamese "off balance," The war will not end and the best Nixon can hope for is that less Americans will die there and the eyes of the public will turn away...
...City, Chase Manhattan and Britain's Barclays Bank Ltd.). The agreement is the first of its kind in the Common Market, and moneymen regard it as an important trend setter. U.S. banks have won much business in the Market, and the entry of Britain would open the Continent wider to the City of London's powerful banks. Europeans see multinational combines as the logical way to compete. Leaders of Lyonnais and Commerzbank say that their association is open to other partners, and some bankers predict that Dutch, Belgian and Italian banks may join...
...promotion fight is merely one more front in Passport Director Knight's longer, wider war. A Christmas card she mailed out last winter was a two-page tirade against her Foggy Bottom enemies. There has been no Secretary of State of whom she has thoroughly approved since John Foster Dulles, who picked her for her present post. "The State Department," she says, "is a cesspool of intrigue, political assassination and character assassination-it permeates the department...
...explosions in the audiences. The quart bottle of Southern Comfort that she held aloft onstage was at once a symbol of her load and a way of lightening it. As she emptied the bottle, she grew happier, more radiant, and more freaked out. The spread of the feet grew wider, the stomp more frantic. The flopping mop of hair did its best, but could not completely hide the tightening grimace of the face. As the mouth opened wide, the macadam voice, scarred by booze and cigarettes, grew louder and bolder...