Word: broad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These figurse are very crude, of course. The categories are extremely broad. Within each category, Negroes, on the average, have worse jobs at lower rates of pay. But even at this very gross level, many of the essential problems emerge clearly...
...teaching can be kept on topics pertinent to the training of physicians. Only in this way, in turn, do we think that we can avoid undue cluttering of the curriculum with factual details. It is not our intent to belittle facts; the biological sciences unfortunately have not yet achieved broad generalizing concepts which reduce have not yet achieved broad generalizing concepts which reduce the need to know facts. We make this statement, however, in full awareness that it is not possible for every medical student to take from each course the detailed information expected of a Ph.D. candidate in that...
Although it is not the intent or purpose of this initial report to spell out the details of a curriculum, it did seem advisable to map out the broad outlines of a program that we think would be workable. Undoubtedly other specific arrangements might serve the purpose equally well. [Our proposal can be summarized as follows...
...problems of space law, while most ominous when they touch upon the military, nonetheless are so broad that space lawyers-a new but growing breed of specialists-have hardly begun to consider their ramifications. What happens, for example, if a civilian British scientist should kill an American or a Russian astronaut on the moon? Who would arrest whom, and what court of what country would have jurisdiction? Despite the fact that nations have forsworn territorial rights on celestial bodies, questions of property rights are bound to arise when exploration and interplanetary travel increase. The French have already raised one question...
...exemplifies that spirit of machine-tooled pioneering better than British Columbia's Premier William Andrew Cecil Bennett, 66, full-time politician and part-time prophet. He feels that Canada's thin population belt must push into the undeveloped North and the still developing West. "Canada is as broad as the U.S.," Bennett says, "but only half an inch deep. Until we push up from the border, we just won't go anywhere." Bennett himself has been pushing for 14 years, and it is his sort of effort that lies behind Canada's hope for the future...