Word: broadness
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Sullivan said that a site is eligible for landmark designation if it is associated with one or more famous people or events or if it is significant to the broad economic, social or architectural history of the city...
...proven herself an expert on European affairs, Albright is well known to the committee, but today's hearing provided senators with a chance to explore Albright's positions issue by issue. As the woman who delivered the head of former U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Albright enjoys broad support from Congressional Republicans -- especially committee chairman Jesse Helms, who admires her tough style. Still, there are points of disagreement. "I do think there are some members of the committee who have reservations on proceeding too quickly on the expansion of NATO," Fischer says. The committee also explored Albright's thoughts...
...fight erupted over the TV industry's proposed rating system, the product of nine months of work by a 21-member task force overseen by Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America. The plan, which was still being fine-tuned last week, establishes six broad rating categories. Children's programming would be labeled either TV-Y (for shows acceptable for all ages) or TV-7 (for shows with some violence or other material unsuitable for children under seven). Other fare would be classified as TV-G (for all audiences); TV-PG (parental guidance suggested...
...grown from being a small group of activist students in the mid-1970's to a broad-ranging group that serves an incredibly diverse population," said Chan, who is a Crimson editor...
According to legal experts, however, the right of gay couples to marry in Hawaii won't have a broad impact on the mainland for some time to come. The state supreme court's decision has no binding effect as a precedent in other states, though gays elsewhere could invoke the persuasiveness of its reasoning. Other states remain free to set gender-based restrictions on marriage because the U.S. Supreme Court has never decided whether the Federal Constitution bans such restrictions. (The high courts of several states have ruled that it does...