Word: broad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dairy tycoon, is as nubbly as Reagan is smooth. He points proudly to his distinguished mayoral record, seeks to widen his liberal-Republican base by supporting such conservative causes as fiscal integrity and increased support for local police. Most important, he asserts, he is the only Republican with sufficiently broad support to win in November; recent polls, his aides note, show him beating Brown by a margin of 15%, whereas a Reagan-Brown battle would be a dead heat. The same polls, however, show Christopher trailing Reagan in the primary race, and most observers think he is unlikely to catch...
...mental-health facilities, now has centers in half its counties. But by far the most important role for the states under the new federalism is to serve, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, as "the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns." Washington may provide the cash and the broad concept, but after that it is the states' job to fashion effective programs in such critical areas as welfare, housing, air and water pollution and commuter transit...
...when the states, through locally elected governments, will serve chiefly to give a regional accent and interpretation to programs initiated by Washington for the nation as a whole. Accordingly, Pennsylvania's Governor Scranton has urged the Republican Party to "embrace a program whereby the federal Congress outlines in broad terms a national goal in meeting a national domestic problem, appropriates the money to meet it, but gives maximum authority for implementation to strong, effective state governments...
Harvard will undertake a broad investigation next year of the role of grades in the University...
Details of the program are not yet fixed. The freshman associates will meet with senior advisors and proctors early in registration week next fall to decide whether the program will be confined to formal meetings and office hours or will give the associates the broad scope the HUC recommends...