Word: broading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Westmoreland is not the genius at grasping broad strategy that MacArthur was, he has spoken often of the strategy of this war, and many of his ideas have been adopted. In any case, it is the President who has been the final arbiter of the war's strategy, aided by space-age communications that enable him to maintain instantaneous contact with his field commanders...
...years past, Lyndon Johnson's presidential messages called on Congress to enact a plethora of broad, even visionary, programs. Times have changed. Beset by foreign crises and committed to holding down spending at home, the President last week sent three domestic programs to Capitol Hill spelling out segments of his State of the Union speech. The President's oratory was as resonant as ever, but it masked an anemia of fresh ideas...
...Galbraith, economics is a vehicle for achieving broad social aims. More than anyone else, he injects social ideas into the bloodstream of economics. As prodder, pleader and proselytizer, he is unrivaled in the U.S. today. "Galbraith is an antenna and a synthesizer," says Samuelson. "He senses what is in the air and puts it together and packages...
...premiers proceeded to adopt more than two-thirds of his proposals. They decided to work as a committee over the next few years to draw up changes in Canada's century-old constitution, including guarantees of linguistic and cultural equality for the French Canadian minority. Endorsing the broad reforms recommended by a Royal Commission, they vowed to break down Quebec's "ghetto complex" by setting up French as an official language along with English wherever large communities of French Canadians are found. Eight of the ten provinces announced that they would begin to hire more French-speaking teachers...
Magraw's third proposal which would reform HUC election procedures, has broad support. At present the chairman of each house committee, one student chosen by each committee, and four freshman elected by the Freshman Council fill the 22 seats on the HUC. None of the members are directly responsible to the constituency they supposedly represent. If students vote at all in House committee elections, they are probably looking for those best qualified to run dances, not to represent them on the HUC, and one of the organization's problems has been the frequent absorption of members in the affairs...