Word: broader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economists point out, the dollar is in some ways stronger than it appears. While it has fallen against major currencies, when it is valued against a broader measure of 25 currencies, it has hardly dropped at all. It has decreased less than 4% against the Taiwan yuan since March 1985 and actually risen nearly 4% against the South Korean...
...addition to being a catalyst for violence, the report said, sexually violent pornography "leads to a greater acceptance of the 'rape myth' in its broader sense -- that women enjoy being coerced into sexual activity, that they enjoy being physically hurt in a sexual context." The commission was less certain about material it labeled nonviolent but "degrading"; such items, it said, foster a similarly lax and accepting attitude toward rape, but do not necessarily arouse violence. A third category, erotica that is neither violent nor degrading, proved to be the most problematic; the commission acknowledged that there was no evidence...
Sometimes administrators will say that the efforts of students to change the attitudes of their small school community are misguided. In the face of the broader injustices within the world, they say, it makes more sense if students try to influence a larger community...
...inevitable step for me in my interests," Pelton said. "It is time to move to a position that offers broader management responsibilities." Pelton was a resident tutor in English in Kirkland House for three years before his senior tutor appointment...
...council throughout its short stint on the scene, Winthrop has remained a middle-of-the-road moderate, serving each of his four years on the student services committee and the student-administrator Committee on College Life (CCL), which he says gave him "the opportunity to deal with a broader range of problems and get listened to by administrators...