Word: broader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon's political pitch in New Jersey was a broader one, accenting Republican efforts to combat crime, improve transportation and check pollution. Campaigning for Republican William Cahill, Nixon did not stray outside friendly Bergen and Morris Counties. They gave him a 96,000-vote plurality over Hubert Humphrey last year, though he carried the state by only 61,000 votes (out of nearly 3,000,000). As in Virginia, the crowds were large, jubilant and overwhelmingly Republican...
...their passion for special and often quite obscure causes, Californians tend to ignore broader and more clamorous social issues. Though long among the nation's most ardent conservationists, they have nonetheless allowed untold pollution and desecration of their land, air, waters and wildlife. The nearly five million automobiles that churn through the Los Angeles megalopolis spew exhaust from 8,000,000 gallons of gasoline every day ?thanks in large part to the inefficient smog-control devices that the cars are required to carry...
...arguments along these lines-by the NAC and others-have pointed out one question which should be of concern to those outside their ranks: Have American universities. through design or by chance. undertaken functions-such as the development of operational weapons systems-which are incompatible with the broader humanistic values universities generally presume to promote...
...broader goal of the M.I.T. actions, the spokesman said, is "to help raise the cost of the Vietnam War to M.I.T. and to the federal government which runs...
...specific demand of the NAC is the termination of seven projects at M. I. T. which are related to the U. S. Department of Defense. But the broader goal of the actions at M. I. T., one spokesman for the Coalition said yesterday, is "to help raise the cost of the Vietnam War to M. I. T. and to the federal government which runs...