Word: broad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Relationship. The second session, like the first, heralded a broad, long-term change in the relationship between Washington and U.S. society. By adopting an auto-safety bill and a truth-in-packaging measure, Congress showed a new determination to protect consumers from hazardous products and dishonest marketing. Federal aid to education was expanded in this session to a total of $10 billion-50% more than the entire U.S. budget...
...fundamental policy priority: that the military war, though it is not to be abandoned, is to be subordinated to the objective of peace. Simple slip-ups, such as simultaneous gestures of deescalation and announcements of arms increases, must be stopped. The policy specifically should seek to satisfy two broad objectives...
Penchant for Violence. Behind broad Roxas Boulevard, where young hot-rodders zigzag furiously among the Jeepneys, is Manila's commercial heart: boutiques, which attract American wives all the way from Hong Kong, stand side by side with gun shops that sell everything from matchbox-sized pistols to M-16 automatic rifles. Manila's private citizenry owns more weapons (365,000) than the entire military and police forces, and it is a rare Filipino whose frilly barong tagalog shirt does not bulge with hardware. Nightclubs, bars, and even the Supreme Court mount signs reading: "Check Your Firearms Before Entering." No self...
Monday, Oct. 10, started the same way, with the average in early trading off almost six points from the closing price of the previous week. Then came the comeback. Led by such glamour stocks as Sperry Rand, Polaroid, Fairchild Camera and Xerox, the market made a broad advance, and the industrials finished the day with a 10.9 point advance...
Kaplan has played it completely crooked, milking laughs from every possible source--Charles Schulz, Ballantine beer signs, karate and sumo, and cute animals (it really is a charming cat)--except the text. The lines are raced through in a variety of singsongs. This, combined with the broad accents of the actors and the twisted rhymes of the text, make them nearly unintelligible. The production's only continuity lies in running gags...