Word: broader
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Left to his own devices, Clinton would finish in the second term what he started in the first: more family leave for parent-teacher conferences and doctor's appointments; a broader Brady Bill to deny handguns to people convicted of domestic violence; more cops on the beat. After failing to provide health insurance for all Americans, Clinton sounds intent on doing it in pieces, covering children first, then the unemployed--getting to universal coverage one patient at a time. And he has promised to repair the parts of the welfare bill he doesn't like--the exclusion of benefits...
...would ever have believed that Whitewater, the money-losing land deal that has dogged the Clintons since the last campaign, would deliver a political payoff? But the more Bob Dole mentioned it, even when delicately veiling the subject in the broader "character" issue, the more it seemed to make Dole look meanspirited...
...million for sensitivity and diversity training programs. The oil giant also agreed to subject itself to a review by an "Equity and Tolerance Task Force" that will attempt to identify and eliminate racial bias among Texaco workers. "With this litigation behind us, we can now move forward on our broader, urgent mission to make Texaco a model of workplace opportunity for all men and women," Peter I. Bijur, Texaco's chairman and chief executive, said in a statement. The lawsuit, filed in 1994, sought as much as $520 million on behalf of blacks who claimed that a "good...
Pressed by rising enrollment, the program remade itself in 1990 as the broader HNAP, which welcomed Native American students from any part of the University. Students say the organization is now well-established, both as a Harvard institution and part of their own social circle...
...report sees ethnic studies as having a broader role in the university, a role that is inherently cross-disciplinary, according to a member of the Faculty Council, which discussed the report yesterday...