Word: broad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agreed that the G.O.P.'s first task is to erase the aura of narrow exclusivity that it acquired during Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign, and to establish itself as a broad-based party with ample room for ideological differences and leaders as far apart as a Rockefeller and California's Governor-elect Ronald Reagan. If that prescription seemed predictable, they did not agree on it without engaging in some caustic casuistry that did little to help the party or the disputants...
...plan, worked out in broad outline last spring, would be the third different procedure in three years. It represents, Monro believes, a compromise between last years plan and the one that was used for many years before that...
Merge & Modernize. At De Gaulle's behest, Economics Minister Michel Debre has begun to push a broad plan to energize industry, argues that "we have no choice but to become competitive." The government has granted $600 million in low-interest loans to steel firms on the condition that they merge and modernize. The government has also helped to bring about more than 50 corporate mergers this year, notably in the metals, textiles and electronics industries. Hoping to enlarge the capital supply and to make Paris a world financial center on the order of London or New York, the Cabinet...
Boudin's precise renderings rarely filled more than a 25-in. by 32-in. canvas. Once he had thought he would do larger works. In 1859 he wrote in his notebook of feeling "freed somewhat of timidity; I shall try some broad paintings, things on a big scale and more particular in tone." But he never really managed it, and it is probably just as well. Art needs its tiny jewels as well as its grand masters...
...Caravelle restaurant with Columbia University President Grayson Kirk, a smooth fund raiser currently rounding up $200 million from the likes of Alumnus Buell. Instead, the Colorado trustees smiled knowingly and two days later announced that Buell and his wife Virginia had given the college $25 million, plus broad hints of more to come...