Word: broader
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Women's Issues." In odd corners of the University there are small scale attempts such as the "women in history" expository writing section, with an enrollment of ten women ad five men, and various professors in regular departments who are attempting to integrate the study of women into broader areas. Theda Skocpol, assistant professor of Sociology, plans to devote several lectures to women and the family in her Sociology of Revolutions course. Bits and pieces do not add up to an organized program, though , with one notable exception in the University...
...example of this, she points to a section she taught last year in which students knew a great deal about the subject of the course, "Women and the American Experience," but little about the broader context it took place...
...broader policy front, British union leaders have so far avoided being specific about the wage limits they are prepared to accept in Phase 3. Apparently, they do not want to commit themselves to any policy until they are certain of controlling the rank and file. Nonetheless, the powerful Trades Union Congress last week served notice about what should be included in the new budget that Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey will present on March 29. The unions' price for going along with a third year of slim raises: a $4 billion expansionary packet to be allocated...
Hubbard, referring to the recent debates in the city council on the continuation of DNA research at Harvard said yesterday, "What happened in Cambridge was a beginning for opening up the discussion on a much broader basis. The Academy forum is another opportunity to open up the discussion...
...regulation should help to end these remaining abuses, passing laws in general is not a full answer to credit problems. Credit counselors assert that much of the legislation of recent years has been ineffective because most consumers do not know their rights under the laws. That points to a broader problem. Borrowers in general are appallingly ignorant of the basic economics of credit. Says Boston Debt Counselor Mel Stiller: "People are not taught in school how to use credit and how to do family financial planning. They just never learn how to survive in modern economics...