Word: broad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Legal Services Program see themselves as ombudsmen for the poor. As such, they do more than represent individual indigents in minor court actions. They also sue state and local governments on behalf of welfare recipients, migrant workers and other large groups of poor people. The growing success of such broad test cases may be measured by the opposition that has surfaced in the U.S. Senate...
Washington sources have indicated that the Defense Department will probably try to circumvent the bill by adopting some such broad definition of military applications. If it does, however, Congress may try to put stricter limitations on Defense-financed research, the source said...
...Hayes spent most of yesterday afternoon watching his ballots being counted. Though at times he nervously joked, "I should have gone to that class," by the end of the afternoon his face broke into a broad smile. Taking advantage of his "townie" birth and Harvard affiliation, Hayes ran well throughout Cambridge-an unusual feat for a first time candidate in a city where elections, though run at-large, generally are decided by tight-knit neighborhood support...
...results suggest that growing impatience with the war especially among the leaders-could undermine President Nixon's efforts to carry out a program of controlled disengagement. But they also show that Nixon has managed to win broad support for two crucial points of his Viet Nam policy-withdrawal of American troops pegged to "Vietnamization" of the war, and holding out for the right of South Vietnamese self-determination. Fully three-quarters of the public polled favor the President's program of troop withdrawals. But half of the general public would be willing to back Nixon in one last...
...potential conflict is over how sharply the goals of the peace drive should be focused and how broad a following it should seek. The Viet Nam Moratorium Committee, which organized the Oct. 15 demonstrations, is led mainly by politically oriented moderates and liberals. Created quickly on the strength of a novel idea, it seeks the broadest possible enlistment of public opinion to persuade Congress and the President that U.S. involvement in the war must be ended promptly. Its emphasis is upon campus and community activity to get much of middle America personally involved...