Word: broad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's performance in the weights was solid, if not spectacular. Ron Wilson's 57 ft. 10 in. in the 35 lb. weight and Bruce Hedendal's 43 ft. 5 in. in the shot put earned second places. But in its weak events Harvard zilched the broad jump and got a cheap second at 6 ft. in the high jump...
...rebutting Harris, Lowenstein focused on the criteria of efficacy: students, he said, could have a considerably impact on government policy; but they must appeal to the "broad middle" of the American public, accomplishing with large numbers what they might not be able to do with sheer intensity of feeling...
Their objective has been twofold. They have wanted, first and most obviously, to provide a means of expression for broad-based moderate dissatisfaction with the war, an alternative to the strident protest of the New Left. In the belief that student discontent is prevalent and that the Administration may soon decide whether to further escalate the war, they have sought to mobilize a "middle course of opposition...
...Presidential aide summoned one of the men who was believed to be an advisor to the students, and grilled him about their criticisms and plans. The White House, according to Administration officials, was concerned that the group might provide a rallying point for more broad-based expression of dissatisfaction...
...they could generate. The department would also designate "regional airsheds" throughout the country, wherever there was serious pollution whose fallout area superseded state and local jurisdictions. In each such region, a commission consisting of two representatives of each state involved and one from HEW would be responsible for enforcing broad national standards and more detailed local rules...