Word: broader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will operate much as it usually does. One of the attractions of the relaxed 1978 bankruptcy laws is that day- to-day management of an affected firm remains in the hands of its executives rather than those of a court-appointed trustee. Bankruptcy judges like Texaco's Schwartzberg oversee broader matters, such as the sale and acquisition of major assets, in consultation with committees of creditors...
Leelee Groome, an attack on the Crimson and McBride's teammate at Agnes-Irwin, could sympathize with McBride's plight. She, too, had had to learn a new system and develop a broader and more refined approach to lacrosse...
...plight of the Nicaraguan middle class, Rushdie does make one anomalous attempt to critically evaluate the closing of La Prensa, Nicaragua's main opposition newspaper. While he does not support this move, Rushdie asserts that the government should not be condemned for it. If we look at the broader picture of the country's civil liberties, he argues, the Sandinistas come off looking not nearly so bad as it is portrayed by the Reagan Administration...
...Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze visited Prague to try to smooth over the differences. The Czechoslovak party has been split between hard-liners led by chief Party Ideologue and Presidium Member Vasil Bilak, who favors only very limited reforms, and the more pragmatic Premier Lubomir Strougal, who advocates broader changes...
...conquered world markets in textiles, television sets, steel and automobiles. In each case, the problem was supposedly solved by the imposition of controls on Japanese exports to the U.S. But the imbalance has become worse, creating a climate -- at least in Washington -- that threatens to undercut the much broader mutuality of interest that binds the U.S. and Japan. Says an Administration official: "It really is a problem of perception. The Japanese are seen as being unfair...