Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just to deceive but to survive. Did the President, as one of Hutchinson's charts asked pointedly, "take care that the laws were faithfully executed"? It certainly wasn't a priority, and Lewinsky -- believable, often charming, and definitely wised-up -- told us so. But what Rogan called Clinton's "broad tapestry of corruption" still sounds more like a poorly knitted scarf, and the better we got to know the players on Saturday, the more we were reminded of the pathetic little affair at the center of all the lying...
...committee's first suggestion that instead of broad college-wide efforts, the revisions focus on two departments at a time. This proposal aims at changing a few large departments to help a large number of students...
...people don't buy into [impeachment], but there's no real broad resistance...Those kind of battles generate more of a political consciousness. That's what it takes to bring out more political movements," he says...
When the Human Genome Project was launched a little under a decade ago, boosters compared it with the Manhattan Project or the mission to put men on the moon: an effort so complex and so broad in scope that only the government had the financial and bureaucratic resources to pull it off--yet with such huge potential payoffs that virtually no resources should be spared...
...feebleminded" mother and the mother herself of a daughter who was found to be, at age seven months, subnormal in intelligence. The court, by an 8-to-1 vote, rejected Buck's appeal. In his majority opinion, Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, "The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes," and concluded, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough...