Word: broad
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King Constantine has laid down two major conditions for his return to Greece: 1) the promulgation and adoption of a constitution, and 2) national elections. What he thinks of the present draft, which would limit his once broad powers, is not known. His strongest leverage on the junta has been that foreign governments have continued to recognize him, not the junta-appointed regent, as Greece's legitimate head of state. But at week's end Tur key-Greece's traditional enemy-became the first important nation to extend official recognition to the junta. Some other countries...
...years, the Washington Evening Star had been running a poor second to the Washington Post. Content to appeal to the city's upper-crust "cave dwellers" but to few others, the Star came nowhere near matching the Post's broad coverage. This lack showed up in circulation as well as advertising. The once bright Star was fast fading...
...film score for John Schlesinger's moody translation of the Hardy novel, Bennett writes with a supple sense of melodic line and quiet, iridescent orchestral color. His Symphony offers the proposition that even at the furthest limits of harmony it is possible to reach a listener with broad melodic lines and ruddy emotionality. Although it speaks the orchestral language with assurance, the Symphony is obviously the work of a man who prefers opera to all other musical forms. "Opera is a way of life," he says...
Pifer urged the creation of a long-range planning center for higher education, drawing heavily on university advisers and given authority to guide federal policy. Its first task would be to seek agreement on how federal aid should be distributed. He rejected the idea of broad, unselective grants to all institutions on the ground that this would merely "perpetuate, only on a more costly scale, everything that is wrong" with higher education now. One. of his proposals was for the designation of a few high-quality existing campuses as "national universities," which would be given preferential support for their scholars...
...Those who want to can cultivate emigre mentalities; the rest just joke about the place. Although they are all doing jobs which are technically important, for all their nudging and advising life in Adzope goes on by default on Adzope own terms. It has to work out its own broad solutions...