Word: broader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jusuf was charged with just about everything, from having six wives-two more than the Islamic law allows-to embezzling $10 million from the country's treasury. But the intent of the trial seemed broader than simply bringing Jusuf to justice. It apparently marked the start of a campaign by Indonesia's new rulers to undermine Sukarno's in fluence by linking him to his ministers' misdeeds. For one thing, the prosecution charged that Sukarno had encouraged Jusuf to use his influence with importers to collect "contributions" for Sukarno's Fund of the Republic, which...
...come at the bigger hemisphere-wide meeting, the five also requested more say in the Alliance for Progress, which marked its fifth anniversary last week. The fruits of the Bogotá meeting may not show up for months, until committees work out the details and actual coordination of the broader programs. Until then, the five could draw satisfaction from the mere fact of having gotten together over a conference table...
More than anything else, the food-price spiral is part of a broader inflationary pattern that has been stitched by Government policy. Considering the cost of other things, today's food prices are far from exorbitant: the ordinary American family spends 18% of its after-tax income to eat-and that average is the world's lowest...
...often that a man involved in a criminal situation appears on the cover of TIME. When we do have such a cover story, its chief concern is not so much that man and his specific deeds as it is the broader, often sociological implications of what he did. Thus when Caryl Chessman, the convicted kidnaper and sex offender, appeared on the cover (March 21, 1960), he was the center of a worldwide dispute over the moral and legal ramifications of capital punishment. Lee Harvey Oswald, this era's most infamous psychotic killer, appeared (Oct. 2, 1964) as the world...
From other witnesses, Buford elicited testimony to show that the murder was the climax of "a broader conspiracy" among the three defendants and other Klansmen: they plotted to terrorize Negroes throughout the Athens area. Earlier in 1964, police officials testified, Sims pistol-whipped an elderly Negro. A Negro garage attendant told of being set upon at about the same time by 18 hooded Klansmen and beaten with a strap by one whom he made out to be Sims. On another occasion, a witness related, shots were fired at a Negro apartment building from three carloads of whites, Turner and Myers...