Word: broader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alleging a longstanding "mystique" surrounding the Ad Board among students, CLUH announced early last week it would review the body to give undergraduates a broader understanding of its practices. There are no students on the Board...
HRAAA's opponents had also said candidates like Tutu were only interested in one issue--divestment from South Africa--and were thus ill-suited to discuss the broader educational issues that come before the Board...
Domestic-partnership rights and legal gay marriages, therefore, can be justified to the extent that the couples involved profess a willingness to accept the mutual financial obligations, community-property rights and shared commitments to care for each other that are the basis of family life. With this broader goal in mind, it makes sense for society to allow -- indeed to encourage -- domestic partners both gay and straight to take on all the rights as well as the responsibilities of marriage...
...airplanes and automobiles. Delco Electronics alone sells 7 million silicon pressure sensors a year to its parent company, General Motors, for use in power-train controls and diagnostics. But scientists at Berkeley, Stanford, M.I.T., AT&T, IBM and a handful of other research centers around the world see much broader possibilities for minuscule machines. They envision armies of gnat-size robots exploring space, performing surgery inside the human body or possibly building skyscrapers one atom at a time. "Microelectronics is on the verge of a second revolution," says Jeffrey Lang, a professor of electromechanics at M.I.T. "We're still dreaming...
...Ortega strode in," Bush related. "I was not sure whether it was a defensive stride or a take-command stride. He made his way around a table toward us. He is a bigger and broader man than the common perception. I noticed his uniform, the very bright khaki cloth and the bright red bandana. I don't say it to denigrate the Boy Scouts, but he looked like a senior Boy Scout leader...