Word: broadened
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...survey team talked to fine teachers who broaden their students' opportunities to study and who callenge them to give dimension to their work, but those who took such initiatives were sometimes unsupported by administration and faculty. Moreover, such teachers are in opposition to the expectations of students whose ingrained motivation is to pass examinations and who have no other models articulated to them as alternatives...
...orgy is expected to be brief, but the consequences of last week's decision will not be. Doctors and dentists are already complaining that cheaper candy will broaden waistlines and decay teeth. Beyond that, lower supermarket prices will probably mean an end to many of the 60,000 little neighborhood shops, which include sweets among their sundries, and last year accounted for 48% of Britain's candy sales. Most important, the candy case is the first in a series on the docket of the Restrictive Practices Court. The court is now scheduled to rule on price fixing...
...move to get peace talks started. Headed by Massachusetts Congressman F. Bradford Morse, the group urged the U.S. to initiate a 60-day bombing suspension north of the 21st parallel, just below Hanoi. If North Viet Nam responded by closing off infiltration routes, U.S. bombers would gradually broaden the proscribed areas until the Northern raids had stopped entirely. Negotiations might then begin after each side had demonstrated a willingness to take limited steps toward peace...
...only afternoon newspaper in New York, believes that it is a part of its journalistic duty to convey some expression of viewpoints different from its own." But the Post showed no signs of enriching its threadbare news coverage. "If only Dolly Schiff would bend a couple of degrees and broaden the horizons of her paper," noted Los Angeles Times Publisher Otis Chandler, "she could pick up one helluva rich market...
...Republican party, which was frankly surprised to see LaGuardia win in the first place, remained only a shadow of a party, happy to pick up patronage from a Republican mayor but unwilling to broaden its base...