Word: wider
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...those particular instances, the dangers of loyalty were largely professional. When wider issues are at stake, however, a loyal friend may be a traitor to the rest of us. E.M. Forster, who wrote a moving, if porous, defense of personal loyalty in 1939, of all years, declared: "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." Forster then went on to concede that his viewpoint might be shocking and called upon Dante for support, arguing that Dante placed "Brutus and Cassius in the lowest circle...
...another, the first page of the new section provides a home for medium-length news features, a type of story that did not fit comfortably into the paper before. The "second front," as some Journal hands call it, has a more contemporary design than Page One, with bolder and wider headlines and more graphics-or what passes for graphics at the determinedly unvisual Journal. It introduces weekly columns on small business, regional trends, real estate, marketing and science and technology, subjects the paper tended to neglect in the past. The lower left-hand corner is reserved for short, sprightly yarns...
Brubaker, like Murton, discovers that the horrors of prison life are not waste products of idle sadism; they are manifestations of a wider corruption. The penalty for exposing these evils is death - a sentence carried out by the venal trusties and implicitly condoned by their civilian counterparts, the local politicians and businessmen. It is the discovery of the victims' graves that brings Brubaker to its ambiguous climax...
...leaders today yearn to get better educated recruits. Said Army Deputy Chief of Staff Glenn Otis to the TIME panel: "We would like to have more high school grads. They have a better understanding of life and what they're about. They're better prepared to take on a wider variety of tasks and this gives us more flexibility in their assignments...
Last year the alumni procession lasted 50 minutes, 20 minutes longer than scheduled. "The trouble spot was in front of Widener. People squeezed into one lane," Aloian, who serves on the Happy Committee, says. "This year, we'll aim for a crisper start to the parade, better movement, and wider lanes. We're going to try to keep the walkway wide--three abreast--to break the Widener bottleneck," he adds...