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Word: broads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Socialist-Communist "common program" calls for. Instead, all stock in private companies is converted to bonds, and shareholders are guaranteed 15% of profits; but corporate control passes to the workers. France's Paris-centered government is decentralized with the creation of new regional assemblies with broad local powers, including taxation. Welfare benefits are increased. To encourage public transportation, the Mètro becomes free and the price of gasoline rises to $7.20 a gallon. All high school graduates are required to work for two years before attending university. "Expect less from government and more from yourselves," Rocard exhorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Revolution of 1980 | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...only in the last eight months that the House Judiciary Committee has attacked the Senate's omnibus approach as too broad, too unwiedly and ultimately too dangerous...

Author: By Tom M. Levenson, | Title: And S.1 Begat... | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

Clark is smaller, a little thick through the middle, perhaps, but not, at first glance, a football jock. Listed as 6-1, 220, in the press guide's inflated figures, Clark has a broad, square-jawed face and curly hair...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Harvard's Line Is All Right | 10/27/1978 | See Source »

...Amendment, helped a number of schools (including four Ivies) which otherwise would have been excluded from I-A, get into the top division. (All eight Ivy League schools are currently in Division I-A.) The provision was suggested by the Ivy League with regard for its traditionally broad-based intercollegiate athletics programs...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: NCAA Fun 'n Games | 10/27/1978 | See Source »

Many observers are reserving judgement on the Core until Harvard develops specific courses because they realize the strength or weakness of a liberal arts curriculum lies in the individual courses and not in broad guidelines. Choosing to reform courses and not guidelines, a Johns Hopkins Physics professor, Gordon Feldman, is leading an experiment to develop four interdisciplinary courses that students can use in the next two years to fulfill general education requirements...

Author: By Amy B. Mcintosh, | Title: The Core: Fashionable Trendsetter In Liberal Arts Curriculum Reform | 10/26/1978 | See Source »

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