Word: wider
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...things than work-not necessarily a realistic idea or even a meritorious one-provides the green light at the end of the pier. Says Albus: "The robot revolution will free human beings from the pressures of urbanization and allow them to choose their own life-styles from a much wider variety of possibilities...
Smiling coyly at the camera as she hunkers down on the floor and spreads her denim-clad legs wider than a 21-in. television screen, the teen-age temptress murmurs huskily, "You know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing." Then Photographer Richard Avedon's lens zooms in to linger on Actress-Model Brooke Shields' taut jeans...
Doty said Harvard's consideration of commercial involvement in recombinant DNA research is "symptomatic of a wider movement" influenced by declining university funds, increased faculty dependence on outside sources to supplement falling income, and the desire for rapid transfer of research to industrial applications...
...systems. These are elaborate combination of computerized word and data processors, high-speed printers, telecommunications hook-ins and video display terminals used by secretaries and their bosses. And such office innovations are likely to continue. Says Wang: "The cost of parts keeps getting lower, and the applications are getting wider...
...research in such a company focuses on practical problems, while university research is more basic and wider ranging," Gilbert said, adding that "applications of research are what such a company is all about...