Word: broadening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chairman of the Russian parliament, Yeltsin is not an executive president, and with only a four-seat majority, he will have to bargain and compromise in order to pass legislation. On the eve of his election, in a shrewd move to broaden his appeal, he promised to form a power-sharing coalition with the more conservative factions. He said he had learned the "value and importance of political compromise." As a result, he will have to be diplomatic and conciliatory, which is not his natural style. His radical reform package, therefore, is not likely to become reality anytime soon...
...only fellow undergraduates who harass and intimidate. Many students charge universities with "institutional racism" for failing to recruit more minority faculty members, broaden the curriculum and show more sensitivity on race issues. At Trinity College last May, a campus guard entered the university's computer room. Of the 40 students in the room, just one was black. For no apparent reason, the guard singled out the black student and asked for his ID card. "For blacks, it's an alien environment," says Eric Dixon, a broadcasting student at the University of Texas. "The school incubates segregation. It can't control...
Professor of Government Joseph S. Nye has just completed one project--and is the initial stages of another--that may broaden his appeal beyond the academic community...
After the creation of 17 million new jobs, as well as the lowering of tax and inflation rates, Kemp sought in his 1988 campaign to broaden the scope of this prosperity to include those poor left out of the Reagan Revolution...
Monet's reply to anti-impressionist prejudice, Tucker argues, was to broaden - the base and subject matter of his work. He wanted to show that the greatest landscape painting in France could still be produced by impressionist means. "Nature should not be submitted to harsh, premeditated analysis, as in the Grande Jatte," he writes of Monet's attitude. "It should be allowed to reign in the painting as it does in the world -- resplendent in all its nuances, variants, subtleties and surprises...