Word: broader
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office and bluntly told them that Venezuela intended to lift prices an average 14% on all its oil exports. Later, the government announced that it would increase only the cost of heavy fuel oil, which accounts for much of the country's exports. Oilmen now expect that the broader crude oil increases will be formally posted later this month when existing three-month contracts are about to expire. For the U.S., which relies heavily on Venezuelan imports, the increases already announced could add from 3? to 6? to the cost of residual fuel oil used to generate electricity. Heating...
...planned what kinds of programs we were going to put on and the amount of lead time we were going to allow to develop things of broader significance. We began several innovations: we created a whole new form of novel for television that broke the traditional time barrier, things you can't do in theater or in motion pictures. QB VII was the first major novel. It ran seven or eight hours. It's interesting to watch how we have moved into areas of social significance. There is a television movie coming up called The Cracker Factory...
Carter undertook to answer the critics and skeptics in a major speech at Georgia Tech, where he had once been a student. Originally he had planned a lengthy defense of the pending SALT agreement, but he and his advisers realized that he now had to take a broader approach...
...formal responsibilities were far broader than mine: to review and edit my written reports on price-support levels, and to keep tabs on all developments affecting domestic agricultural production. I soon discovered that his idea of keeping tabs consisted of reading a few magazines and departmental circulars. As for passing on my analyses, he concentrated mostly on perfecting my painfully learned bureaucratic jargon. So at a cost of $15,000 a year to the taxpayers, I slowly cranked out reports that Bob could have (and once had) written. Bob himself...
...military analysts last week. In Washington, a task force raised from the U.S. intelligence community began meeting within hours of the Chinese invasion, evaluating what data could be obtained from military communiques and by satellite observation of the battle scene. In Moscow, strategists were equally attentive to the broader implications of the war. How well the People's Liberation Army does in its first real combat test since the Korean War nearly 30 years ago could provide clues to its capability against Soviet armies on China's northern border. Arrayed against the PLA was a formidable military instrument...