Word: broadened
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...civitas and the Greek polis as much in our selves as in our surroundings. It proposes to break down walls and open up spaces to reveal vistas too long blocked off from view. And even if this book causes no cities to be razed or rebuilt, it will surely broaden avenues in its readers' minds
Despite Bush's initial objectives in this conflict, many observers have speculated that the President may want to broaden these goals, as the war becomes more serious. Most scholars at Harvard, however, caution against this approach...
...whole banking system. He argues that antiquated regulations have prevented U.S. banks from remaining competitive (Seidman's deep belief in the competitive system led him to join with banker Steven Skancke last August in publishing a cheerleading book, Productivity: The American Advantage). If the government could simultaneously broaden what banks are allowed to do but restrict their use of insured deposits, he says in a Seidmanian flight of metaphor, "we would have created sort of a minor miracle and ridden off in two directions at once, successfully...
...addition, the U.S. could broaden the channels of communication between Japan and the USSR and act as a broker of economic assistance between Tokyo and Moscow. Such an arrangement, he argued, "can change the whole structure of international relationships." And, Ivanov added, this could have "very direct and substantial effects on China's political reforms...
These were students working under the added burden of studying in a foreign linguistic environment, and yet they had seized the opportunity to broaden their already international experience by entering into a globe-trotting discussion in another language still...