Word: broading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...implement this, Congress would have to change the 1966 Bail Reform Act. The act's broad wording has resulted in serious abuses. Most of the time, only capital offenders are detained, while in Washington and elsewhere rapists, armed robbers and other violent types drift back into the streets. Many cannot be found for trial...
This year's project members are now seeking grants from several foundations, and expect to have investigations of several government agencies and programs under way next summer, all under the advisement of Nader. With "administrative discretion" executive agencies are often able to withhold information to cloak their weaknesses. Broad systematic investigation of Federal agencies are impossible for a Congressman who lacks enough staff and fears political liabilities. Some of the balance will be restored next summer when for the first time agency critiques are conducted by students whose political constraints are as yet unauctioned...
...field of concentration. Black students feel that their proposals for tutorial work, or for independent study, are too often discouraged by the present Departments and degree-awarding Committees. Social Relations was singled out by students as being generally quite receptive to such proposals, but even this field, broad and tolerant as it is, has on occasion proven unable to encompass and serve what black students consider their legitimate intellectual needs...
...There is no acceptable program in existence at this time to substitute for ROTC as a broad-based source of college educated citizen-soldier leaders for our armed forces. About 45 per cent of all Army officers currently on active duty are ROTC graduates; 65 per cent of our Ist lieutenants and 85 per cent of our 2nd lieutenants come from the ROTC program. The Army needs 18,000 new 2nd lieutenants each year to meet normal attrition. We met that goal last year and expect to meet it again this year. For some years before that, we had serious...
...last eighteen months, opposition to ROTC has spread to universities such as Boston, St. Lawrence, and Columbia, where the program is entirely voluntary. Opponents of voluntary ROTC base their case on broad issues of educational integrity...