Word: broader
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Others took the microphone to defend affirmative action in broader terms, pointing to the legacy of discrimination that has made it difficult for ethnic minorities to compete with whites for job opportunities...
...House Ways and Means Committee pressed the Clinton Administration to take the first crack at avolatile Medicare overhaul, but Democrats weren't biting. At a hearing today, Committee chairman Bill Archer (R-Tx.) accused the White House of holding the $175 billion Medicare program "hostage" to its insistence on broader health reforms. But Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, testifying before the panel, fired back by suggesting the GOP was simply exaggerating Medicare's fiscal problems as an excuse to slash $300 billion by 2002 in order to fund tax cuts and balance the budget...
YOUR CRITIQUE OF HOWARD WAS OVERLY harsh. True, bureaucrats often score poorly in exercising power, but I'd far rather argue with a regulator who is enforcing broader and fewer rules than one with overly detailed regulations. The latter fears to stray from "going by the book'' lest he be taken to task for doing so. The former is more predisposed to listen to common sense interpretations of rules...
...Boston. It's really broadened my mind and given me a sense of perspective that too many Harvard students lack. It definitely removes you from a self-absorbed world that too many Harvard students are trapped in. It gets you to think about your social responsibility and about the broader world...
Half a century later, my mother returned to Auschwitz. As part of the American delegation attending the ceremony marking the fiftieth anniversary of the camp's liberation, she returned not in a cattle car, but in business class. The ceremonies were historical, to be sure, but they had a broader goal. The nations of the world came together and asserted that the evil of Auschwitz did not belong on this planet. Hungary, Poland, Russia, England, France and others testified that humanity cannot allow such injustices to happen again...