Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CHICAGO: In an effort to convince a skeptical public that reaching a broad tobacco settlement is more important than pressing many individual wars against the industry, state attorneys outlined a proposed deal to 100 doctors and anti-tobacco activists Wednesday. Agreements reached with the industry so far are substantial, including: a ban on smoking in workplaces and public areas; a ban on all cigarette advertising; a program to gradually reduce teen smoking, reaching 30 percent in five years, 50 percent in seven years and 60 percent in 10 years; an industry-financed multi-billion dollar smoking cessation program; FDA regulation...
...microprocessor is the most complex man-made creation in history," says Michael Slater, principal analyst for MicroDesign Resources, based in Sebastopol, Calif. "Everything is built on everything that went before. It's a continuous stream of new ideas...but none of these ideas are broad. The broad ideas are almost all IBM's." Hey, maybe Big Blue ought to be calling its lawyer...
...million -- and when her son objects to Hung?s strong-arm negotiations, she says, ?Oh, pack it in! I could do business with that man.? 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. Hung, the avatar of the new Hong Kong order, is a brute . . . and may be guilty of murdering one of Imperial Stitching?s working women. Readers who like to take sides will not find palatable choices...
...well as a solid introduction to the methods of historical study, were turned down for the most peevish of reasons: They didn't precisely fit the description of the Core divisions Historical Studies A or B. This leads us to believe that the Core administrators, rather than fostering a "broad education," are more interested in their own parochial program...
...program, with DiCaprio as host, Blaine traipses across the country, performing his repertoire for a broad sampling of America's melting pot: old Chinese men in San Francisco; gangbangers in Compton, Calif.; Valley Girls, Wall Streeters, the Dallas Cowboys. "The secret, hidden message," he says, "is that all people are the same...