Word: broadening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nuremberg Principles; an item about the 30,000 people who go missing every year. Thus, for example, as we travel deeper into Wade's battlefront memories, we are also given hard-and-fast, nonfiction testimony from the men who perpetrated the My Lai massacre. The "Evidence" chapters broaden the book's focus and prevent us from dismissing the horrors described in the novel as pure make-believe or peculiar only to the war in Vietnam...
...holding extensive talks with North Korea, the worst troglodyte of all Stalinist regimes. And when Bill Clinton extended most-favored-nation tariff treatment to Beijing last May, he argued that "the best path for advancing freedom in China is for the United States to intensify and broaden its engagement with that nation." Why shouldn't he treat Cuba the same way? "I think the circumstances are different" is the best explanation he could manage last week...
...follow the Clinton model, but their alliances are voluntary and without regulatory authority. Dole's bill neither mandates nor prohibits alliances but allows self-employed individuals and small employers to purchase the Federal Employees Health Benefit plan. The House Ways and Means and House Education and Labor bills would broaden the existing Medicare system into a national purchasing pool. Education and Labor permits states to create mandatory pools. Senate Finance offers a choice between the federal employees' plan, and, where they exist, voluntary health alliances. All plans subsidize the purcahse of insurance by poor people at varying levels...
...past few months, Zhirinovsky has tempered his message in an attempt to broaden his base of appeal. Specifically, the Liberal Democratic Party targets disgruntled military officers, the new commercial merchant class and the middle-aged, all of whom Communism left high and dry. Supposedly, Zhirinovsky's LDP has met with considerable success over the past few months, and with the Russian political balance so historically unstable, many voices sound the alarm...
...candidates who have its support are playing down the connection. Though several of his regional coordinators are busy forming a Minnesota chapter of the Christian Coalition, even the hard-line Quist is careful to keep his distance. "I have never been in sympathy with Pat Robertson," he insists. To broaden his moral-issues agenda and build bridges to economic conservatives, he prefers to stress his ideas for a middle-class...