Word: broader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear front runner, it is a test of early strength. Dukakis must still show that he can attract money from strangers. Two-thirds of his haul came from Massachusetts. Donors of Greek descent supplied some of the out-of-state money. Biden and Gephardt, by contrast, have built broader financial bases...
...after the pioneers and the cattlemen, of course, came the schoolmarms and the lawyers and the congressional committees. The untrammeled open plains need to be fenced and organized and submitted to the rule of law. After action governed by conscience comes behavior governed by regulation, the broader organization of a more complicated society...
Still, Liman and House Chief Counsel John Nields managed to sketch some broader themes than North's more limited view of how a democracy functions. Nields pounced on North's complaint that his contra support role had been publicized in Moscow, Havana and Managua. "All our enemies knew it," replied Nields solemnly, "and you wanted to conceal it from the United States Congress...
...tough, at times caustic, grilling. But their investigation is limited to the Iran- contra affair, and their attention is focused on such matters as whether and how much President Reagan knew about the diversion of Iranian arms-sales profits to the Nicaraguan rebels. That complex scandal, however, points to broader problems that also deserve investigation: What do North's many escapades say about the foreign policy of the Reagan Administration? How much did that policy depend on covert operations, hidden not only from Congress and the public but from much of the official Government? And how did such improbable figures...
...Insurance Corp. (1933), the Securities and Exchange Commission (1934) and the National Labor Relations Board (1935). When regulatory legislation was first challenged, a conservative Supreme Court thought the Constitution did not provide the authority for such federal meddling, but Roosevelt's appointment of more liberal members led to a broader interpretation of the one-sentence commerce clause and other sections of the document. Portions establishing Congress's power to issue money and control its value, for example, eventually served as a basis for banking regulation...