Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...program required students to take courses in each of three broad course areas--natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities...
...press release also states that "this broad policy is meant to avoid any possible appearance of impropriety...
This paraphrase of Margaret Thatcher's comment after meeting Mikhail Gorbachev pretty much tips Theroux's hand in Kowloon Tong. He is aiming at broad political satire, and nearly any target will do. Both the Mullards are contemptible. She is a snob about all things British who calls the Chinese "Chinky-Chonks" and tells her host at a Chinese restaurant, "Nothing personal, but we don't touch Chinese food. Never did. All the grease, all the glue. And it's always so wet. Makes me want to spew." Bunt, for his part, is a pathetic mama...
Antismoking activists--at least the ones who never understood that dropping a bundle in Atlantic City was for the good of the state--might ask how Senators who are in broad public agreement that smoking should be discouraged could have voted, no matter what the financial impact, against a bill partly on the ground that it would result in discouraging people from smoking...
...Chirac's conservatives, Le Pen has targeted them. Thursday he issued a list of mainly conservative candidates to defeat. Le Pen's contentiousness may cost Chirac his majority. His conservatives head into Sunday's runoff having netted just 29.9 percent of the vote, with the Socialists, bolstered by a broad leftist coalition, taking 40.6 percent. To keep their jobs, conservatives need not only to woo the Le Pen crowd but convince the 32 percent of eligible voters who sat out the first round to get to the ballot boxes. And leave the produce at home...