Word: broader
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...commit himself to a specific number before receiving a manpower report from police commissioner Lee Brown on Oct. 1. Cuomo's address, and a growing sense of crisis, forced Dinkins at last to announce that an additional 3,000 to 6,000 police would be hired. "If the broader message has not been clear before," he declared, "I state it simply now. Thousands of officers are on their...
...best, the movement to rewrite history along broader racial and ethnic * lines is making for livelier and more accurate instruction. California's public school system adopted new history and social-studies guidelines in 1987. Now, for example, students study feudalism as it occurred in Japan as well as in Europe. In Portland, Ore., elementary school teachers can select African-American examples for their history, science or music lessons from materials prepared by experts in each field. "America is, and has been from the beginning, a multicultural and multiracial society," says Charlotte Crabtree, director of the UCLA-based National Center...
...Bring more highly recruited women and minority professors to Harvard. Some have rejected offers from Harvard because they know they have little chance of receiving tenure. Under a tenure-track system similar to those at many other schools, this fear would be alleviated, and a broader mix of qualified scholars would come to Harvard...
Ginsberg's attitude is unfortunate, but understandable, considering the circumstances under which he lives. But, on a broader level, Israelis face a time of troubles before the current troubles are over...
University officials said that the letter is part of a broader effort by faculty and administrators to lobby Congress and the Bush Administration in an effort to change U.S. immigration policy...