Word: wider
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Pierre Trudeau, who died Thursday in Montreal at age 80, served an almost uninterrupted 16 years as Canada's prime minister, from 1968 until his resignation in 1984. Flamboyant, determined and occasionally quixotic, Trudeau helped establish Canada's modern identity, opened its eyes to the wider world, and fought the Quebec separatist movement that threatened to split the country in two. Richard Duncan, former Ottawa bureau chief (and TIME.com editor), remembers Trudeau from the years he covered...
...community with enriching events that take advantage of the wide array of graduate schools in the University. Too often undergraduates are unable to capitalize on the resources afforded by the graduate schools. The Office of the Provost is providing a new avenue for undergraduates to share in the wider Harvard community. This new fund will not only encourage collaboration between the different schools, but it will also reward those groups which already reach across campus lines...
...unite already existing student groups in the different schools, giving the collaborative organization a stronger voice across campus. This particular aspect of the grant could be useful for political groups in the upcoming elections, or social activist groups who would like to organize a conference to generate a wider base of support. A wide array of groups has access to the fund, provided their use of the money falls under the broad category of "academic purposes...
...begin as a faculty member," explains Judith Block McLaughlin, a professor of the Graduate School of Education and a scholar of the college presidency. "Typically the route is through department chair to a dean or a provost and into the presidency. With each appointment comes a wider range of leadership experiences...
...even setting aside concerns over Lee's civil rights for a moment, it's worth questioning how Director Freeh's testimony will actually help the FBI. After all, if the senators and the wider public actually do buy into a portrait of Wen Ho Lee as a devious consort of a foreign power hungry for U.S. nuclear secrets, they're as likely to believe that by getting away only with time served on a single felony count he made the feds look silly...