Word: broader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the news from Southeast Asia in recent months has focused on South Viet Nam, but turning the story around the ambivalent position of Sihanouk's Cambodia takes it into a broader perspective. Correspondent Pace's own experience was in a way symptomatic of the ambivalence. He flew to Cambodia at a time when most journalists were banned, feared that he might be shipped right out again, but argued with security officials until two planes had departed and left him stranded until the next day. At that point, the officials gave him a 48-hour visa; some...
...relentlessly moving in on what it considers the Street's abuses. The most obvious sign of the dispute at the moment is the SEC's attempt to curb a clubby coterie of insiders on the Exchange, but the real issues are much deeper and broader. Says a top SEC official: "On some vital issues there is a basic gap between the securities business and us that cannot be bridged...
...General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The Communist nations are blackballed from GATT, and the underdeveloped view it as the rich man's guarantor of the unsubsidized order of world trade. GATT has enough Western support to survive; but there will probably grow up alongside it some broader if looser trade machinery that will operate under the unwieldy U.N. Even though the underdeveloped nations' inflated expectations will not nearly be satisfied at Geneva, many Western delegates had concluded even by the first week's end that the conference would leave its mark on world trade patterns...
...maximize both the freedom of the scientist and proper use of funds, a project proposal should include both short-term and broader long range objectives. However, only "a deviation from the broad objectives should call for special approval from the federal agency," the report warned...
...Scheme. Until five years ago, Maremont Corp. was almost exclusively a maker of auto mufflers. Looking for broader fields, Arnold Maremont noted that the auto spare-parts business seemed to offer depression-proof growth. The number of cars on the road increases by at least 4,000,000 every year, and spare parts move even when new-car sales falter, because motorists must spend more to keep their old cars running. Maremont also noticed that Detroit auto companies supplied only 30% of the parts, while thousands of independents producing a jumble of reliable and unreliable products fought over the rest...