Word: broad
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...principal instrument was the defense budget, which had traditionally been sliced up among the three services, with each recipient determining pretty much how its portion should be spent. McNamara replaced this with a system of allocation by function, or mission, regardless of service bureaucracy. Nine broad missions were defined, such as strategic forces and general-purpose forces, and the Army, Navy and Air Force departments were compelled to integrate their efforts whether the activity was nuclear targeting or paper-clip purchases...
Squawking Steinway. Columbia's package concentrates chiefly on the broad spectrum of experimentation, most of it stemming from Webern's later pointillistic serialism and further shaped by the development of electronic sound producing and reproducing equipment. John Cage's Variations II required Pianist David Tudor to clip microphones at various points on his Steinway and to overtune them so that the amplifier-produced squawl and squawk become part of the composition; in Mikrophonie I. Karlheinz Stockhausen attached two microphones to an oversized gong, which was then hit with a variety of materials to produce a 26-minute...
...this election, but Ritter's support almost surely came from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Haiti, Honduras, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, and Panama. Marcos Robles, Panama's president, considers the election very important, and has reportedly been making phone calls to his colleagues all over the continent. Broad hints were dropped that if Ritter doesn't get the job, the United States might run into more trouble over the Canal Zone...
...single article Adlow declared Avatar obscene. To ask him to read the entire issue, he joked lamely, would be "cruel and abusive punishment." The problem of determining contemporary community standards didn't puzzle the Judge at all, simply because he didn't even consider it. "I consider myself a broad-minded fella," he said. "And on the basis of a broad-minded fella's morals, I think Avatar is a filthy, illegal newspaper...
Miss Chace encourages patients to break away from the group and to dance alone or in small groups. When she dances alone with a patient, she tries to adopt his mood. Joining a woman who was making broad bending movements and said she was scrubbing. Miss Chase started scrubbing too. The woman caught the dance therapist by the waist and the two moved up and down together, closer and closer to the floor. Just before the large housewife began to crush the therapist, the patient stood up, immensely relieved. Open expression, Miss Chace explained, had begun--the woman was admitting...