Word: widest
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...sympathetic to Mughogho's concern that access to information about American education be available to qualified applicants from the widest possible variety of backgrounds. Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges are among the very few institutions whose "need-blind" admissions policy applies as much to foreign students as it does to Americans...
...Friday he delivered a finger-wagging, lectern-thumping address that was long on promises, short on specifics. Yes, Gorbachev said, he planned "to get rid of outdated, clearly useless structures" in the government and to bring into it "politicians and experts who are more popular and enjoy the widest support." That sounded like a reference to Yeltsin, but Gorbachev coyly avoided giving any names and offered few details of what changes he really had in mind...
...process from which the president is selected should include voices from the widest spectrum of constituents," Bourke added. "It only makes sense...
...slumped in recent years, industry leaders have searched for ways to expand into new lines of business. Last week the Federal Reserve Board granted J.P. Morgan & Co., the parent of the giant bank Morgan Guaranty Trust, the right to underwrite stocks through a separate subsidiary. The decision marked the widest breach yet in the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, which has barred banking firms from buying and selling stock. On Wall Street securities firms charged that bankers might funnel federally insured deposits into risky stock deals. But regulations bar bank holding companies from shifting funds from a bank to a securities...
...region but to the nation. The federal bureaucracies that manage them have too often operated under antiquated guidelines, framed when the forests seemed inexhaustible and man was oblivious to all but his own needs. Those agencies must reappraise their roles as custodians of the land and recognize the widest interests of the nation, not merely the most deeply vested. To place timber production above every other concern in this era of expanding environmental awareness is an abrogation of the public trust...