Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That lethargic scene has been playing itself out for months now across broad swaths of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. City dwellers in those states, out for a Sunday afternoon drive in the country, may not recognize the creeping devastation sweeping past their car windows. Irrigated fields are still green, overshadowing the brown, crisping lands between and around them. Thanks to lessons learned in the 1930s, farm acreage has long been tilled and cultivated with an eye to soil conservation, to making fields less likely to blow away; the contemporary Dust Bowl is not as dusty...
Maintaining a broad international perspective is key in such environmental initiatives because the problems involved tend to affect the entire globe and involve disparate and complex regulations from the many nations involved, he says...
Hyman's victory on a platform of activism mirrored the success of PUCC's rainbow coalition of student organizations. Events this year seem to indicate that PUCC is not a fringe group of radicals, as its detractors claim, but a broad-based coalition whose agenda has appeal across the College...
...interested in various fields of thought should be thrown together with a view of promoting a broad and humane culture," Lowell wrote in 1928. "So far as subjects of concentration, pecuniary means, and residence in different parts of the country are concerned, each House should be a cross-section of the College...
While some council members declared the election had granted Hyman and Rawlins a broad popular mandate, the low turnout in the election seemed to counter their claim...