Word: broadened
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...Harvard plans to use the device to add to the pressures. Its undergraduates will have the "privilege" of taking a fifth course on a pass-fail basis, in addition to the normal four-course load. This is supposed to give them an incentive to broaden themselves...
...take a fifth course, which he thinks is good for him, he will have the university administration to stop him from backing out. No student, says Mr. Edward Wilcox, will be allowed to drop a pass-fail course late in the term. Otherwise he would lack the incentive to broaden himself...
...violence and threats of more violence, however, the main war is still being fought with words-thousands upon thousands of them. Most of them deal in sharp vilification of the villains opposing Mao's revolution, or make an effort to arouse indignation and sympathy for Mao and thus broaden the base of mass support that he and Lin Piao must command to make their purge of China successful. The attacks are based on the deeply orthodox belief that the teachings of Mao contain all truth-and that to question or oppose them in any way is to become...
...Switzerland's respected Neue Zürcher Zeitung, "has increasingly lost its European character and has grown into the nature of a European-American financial partnership." Many Europeans devoutly hope that U.S. businessmen, whose sales there have now reached $18.6 billion annually with profits approaching $2 billion, will broaden the partnership. For one thing, they would like to see more equity financing-sales of stock in U.S. firms' European operations to the European consumers who make them possible-rather than constant bond flotations...
...broaden his players, Yovicsin initiated a junior varsity program, which now includes nine games a year. No other Ivy junior varsity plays more than five. He has also started a freshman B program and extended the use of game films to cover all teams from the varsity down. It is an expensive and time-consuming system, but the most admirable aspect of Yovicsin's coaching is his development of lower-level men into solid first-stringers, such as his three interior offensive linemen this season...