Word: broadening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...motivation behind this change, says Dean Dingman, was that "students come to Harvard not only to learn in the classroom, but to learn from each other and broaden their horizons. It was felt that by living [exclusively] with others very much like themselves, they were not getting the most out of what Harvard had to offer...
Officials of several Ivy schools, including Yale President Richard C. Levin, have suggested possible legislative action to broaden the scope of the original agreement...
...were under subpoena. David Kendall, the Clintons' personal lawyer, had asked for that subpoena almost two weeks earlier, on Dec. 23 -- the day Clinton announced he would turn over all the files to Justice "voluntarily." As it happened, Justice lawyers were already drafting a subpoena; Kendall persuaded them to broaden it and demand more documents than they originally wanted to see. Kendall handed over about half the papers last week, after a couple of days of confusion and contradiction: the White House had first announced that all the papers had been turned over, and then that none would...
Court TV has embarked on an effort to broaden its programming beyond its staple of live trial coverage. The network runs hourly judicial-news updates all day and weekly prime-time segments on consumer law, small-claims courts, * and parole and death-penalty issues. This month it will introduce The System, a weekly show that Brill describes as a "nonfiction Law & Order," tracking cases from arrest to judgment. On-air personalities like Cynthia McFadden (who has just been hired away by ABC News) and Terry Moran (who is covering the Menendez trial) have gained a devoted following...
...week Germans modified their enthusiastic calls for an eastward expansion of NATO, pushing instead for a "gradual and controlled" opening in order to assuage Russia's paranoid generals. In Washington the dominant refrain was to urge the U.S. Administration both to reduce its personal identification with Yeltsin and to broaden its contacts within Russia. And Westerners everywhere read the returns as proof positive that Yeltsin's personal popularity did not translate into broad-based support for Western-style, free-market economy...