Word: broader
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...bear back home, could not Harvard fund its East Asian programs more fully through American sources, and thereby both (1) leave Asian resources for Asian programs, and (2) draw a wider cross-section of American philanthropists, business leaders, and enterprise into Asia related programs, and thus perhaps fulfill a broader, and much needed, educational purpose? (As a top economic power, Japan is of course something of an exception to the foregoing rough line of reasoning, a line prompted rather by the pledges coming from Hong Kong and Taiwan.) Michael R. Martin GSAS
Unlike the more narrowly focused doctrines of Jensen and Herrnstein, Wilson's Sociobiology serves a much broader function of promoting biological and hereditary thinking throughout the academic world. For example, Allan Mazur, reviewing Sociobiology in the American Journal of Sociology, frankly states: "Wilson, with his brilliant scholarly reputation and Harvard credentials, has both the visibility and credibility to legitimate the biological approach to sociology. For me that is his major contribution...
Firing back good-naturedly, Jimmy reminded the Congressmen that "we were all fuzzy on the issues," but conceded that as a presidential candidate he had had "a much broader range of issues on which to be fuzzy." At the end of the evening, as he strolled out in the chill night air, the new President from Plains told some applauding bystanders at the hotel door, "Have fun in Washington...
...most urgent matter in the U.S. Soviet dialogue is a new agreement on strategic arms, for the 1972 SALT I limit on missile launchers will expire in October. For nearly five years, negotiators have been seeking some broader formula for a long-term ceiling on strategic weapons. At the Brezhnev-Ford summit at Vladivostok in November 1974, the two leaders agreed that a SALT II accord should limit each superpower to 2,400 strategic nuclear delivery vehicles-including missiles and bombers. A final draft of the SALT II treaty seemed imminent, but complications arose. Many American advocates of arms control...
...still plenty of "new wealth,"--wealth that Harvard must find ways to tap. Although the University continues to rely heavily on concentrated giving--in a typical drive 10 per cent of the donors contribute 90 per cent of the money--Peterson says Harvard is attempting to create a "broader network of alumni, friends, informal, and formal contacts...