Word: broading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Magaziner's principal recommendations are that collegians be allowed to choose courses in broad intellectual areas that interest them, rather than follow fixed requirements, and that conventional grades be abolished in favor of "pass" or "no credit." His report also urges professors to focus on concepts rather than narrow facts, and to work far more closely with individual students. These ideas are not especially original; Magaziner's achievement is the persuasive logic of his presentation...
Hearts and Minds. Earl Warren was recently asked what he considered his most crucial decisions. Each of the cases that he singled out represented one of the three broad fields in which his court wrought the greatest change: legislative apportionment, civil rights, and the rights of criminal defendants. The three cases...
...approval caught the surtax's opponents by surprise. Some conservatives who oppose high taxation and spending were disarmed by the bill's bipartisan support and by the nation's growing concern about inflation. Liberals, who proposed to support the bill only in exchange for broad reform of the tax structure, were also outmaneuvered. To minimize their resistance, the committee added a provision reducing or eliminating the federal taxes of 13 million low-income people-a feature the liberals could hardly oppose. To ease the reformers' consciences further, Mills pledged a major tax-revision program by year...
From a purely military standpoint, chemical and biological weapons have unique capabilities. They can be dispersed locally by hand grenades and land mines, or over broad areas with artillery shells, mortar rounds, bombs, airborne aerosols or even missiles like the Army's Sergeant. They constitute great offensive power that can be produced at relatively low cost. They are "search" weapons that seek out the enemy, even in his deepest bunkers, without destroying buildings or installations. In addition to those designed to kill, some agents can be used merely to disable...
...Arafat's maternal ancestors, who bore the title Maqib el-Ashraf, or scions of the nobles. It was one of a small cluster of homes located close to the Wailing Wall. Since occupying the city in 1967, the Israelis have bulldozed one Arab section to create a broad plaza, and their archaeologists have made extensive excavations to uncover more of the wall, dating from the Herodian period. Recently, the excavating reached the foundations of the Abu Saud house...