Word: broader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student of the religious right, sociology professor Jeffrey Hadden of the University of Virginia, characterized the impending shutdown as "totally anticlimactic." Though it raised a lot of fuss, the Moral Majority never developed into much of a grass-roots organization. More important, the nation's broader conservative tide, which lifted Ronald Reagan and then George Bush into the White House, left Falwell with nobody much to oppose. Says Hadden: "It's hard to sustain political activity when you don't have an enemy...
These individual plans for expansion at the Law School are components of Vorenberg's broader program to bolster the size and heterogeneity of the faculty, a change the outgoing dean says is necessary to offer better educational opportunities...
...when the student body rallied to the cause of gays and lesbians in protest of the military's discrimination, the contest of values took on broader terms. ROTC advocates realized this when they adapted the campaign slogan, "Tolerance for everyone." But that was only a superficial acknowledgment of the underlying principle...
...chosen a replacement from the ranks of Gallic designers. In fact, Dior is getting ready for the hot competition that will result from European unification in 1992. In the past decade Ferre has won numerous prizes for sophisticated ready-to-wear clothing that might sell better in the broader market than Bohan's classical creations...
These issues of service to the University are directly connected to the broader questions of Harvard's tenure review process, according to junior faculty. And for that reason, they say that their criticisms are unlikely to produce much change...