Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last Saturday at the annual Cultural Rhythms Festival, the actor Halle Berry joined hundreds of students wearing green armbands in support of ethnic studies. The bands, distributed by the Ethnic Studies Action Committee (ESAC), were intended to communicate to the administration the broad base of support among students for ethnic studies and to keep the issue visible on campus...
...What the Academy does is as broad as its membership," says Herschbach, who was elected to the Academy...
Hosted by the Law School Forum, Grossman and Nicholson, generally reserved, sparred over broad issues on which the parties disagree most strongly: taxes, campaign finance reform, affirmative action and Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr...
Before the '60s, America seemed immune to the revolutionary impulse that defined the 20th century elsewhere. Periods of tumult--the giddy swirl of the '20s; the grinding despair of the Great Depression, which led so many to question capitalism itself--only served to highlight the broad, deep social stability born of American affluence. But the 1960s brought one great revolution in American life--civil rights--and many smaller ones. Religious dogma, journalistic objectivity, middle-class morality--all came under assault as the war sputtered on. Pleasures were now political statements; student opposition to the war turned into an assault...
JAKARTA: Indonesia's legislature handed President Suharto "broad new powers" Monday to crack down on protests over the economic crisis, which is made worse by fear that the aging strongman plans to defy IMF conditions for a bailout. Those powers are reported to include the right to dissolve parliament and ban opposition parties. Since Suharto already controls parliament, the military and even those opposition parties that he allows to operate, the legislature clearly had some difficulty in coming up with any powers that Suharto hadn't already claimed...