Word: broader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saturday as the irreversible deadline. Most of Saturday, the President and his advisers were closeted in the White House discussing which targets to bomb, how hard to hit, when to start. Militarily, limited bombing of the North could have only limited results. Still, its renewal signified in a much broader sense that the U.S., having gone to extraordinary lengths to seek peace in Viet Nam, was now prepared to win the war for that unhappy country...
Intent on cutting down expenses, General Ironsi fired rafts of civil servants and sharply reduced official travel abroad. And no one would fault him for good intentions on the broader economic front: "We recognize the important role of private investment. To this end, the government is revising the legislation relating to incentives in order to assist private businessmen to establish projects of benefit to the economy...
...clear way to read it," says one top Government lawyer flatly. "One cannot safely rely on this opinion as ruling on any more than this case, but it is fair to say that the dissenting opinions indicate a concern by some of the Justices that the opinion is much broader than the case. If they think so, others will...
Although these last two articles were moderately interesting, specialized topics like commercial codes, psychopath legislation, and Congressional immunity can be handled adequately by law journals. A magazine like the Harvard Review would be better off sticking to issues of broader significance, such as those treated in the first two articles...
...Bolsheviks is solid biography which frequently benefits from its pretensions to history of a broader scope. Ulam's discussions of Lenin's youth and the Party in exile are exhaustive, and his treatment of the 1917 revolutions is both thorough and fair-minded. In discussing the February revolution, for example, after giving two pages of "the bare facts," Ulam asks, "What did really happen?" He then summarizes the liberal, non-Bolshevik Socialist, monarchist, Trotskyite, and Leninist positions before adding his own interpretation. Equally impressive are his analyses of Lenin as the ruler of a state. Here he gives a very...