Word: broads
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Assessing the ups and downs of a pulsating global economy requires both an eye for detail and an ability to identify broad emerging trends. To meet this challenge, TIME last week for the first time convened all three of its Boards of Economists -- from the U.S., Europe and the Pacific -- with a pair of distinguished guests: former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Arnaldo T. Musich, chairman of the Foundation for Latin American Economic Research. The 21 experts met with our editors in one freewheeling two-day session in New York City. Their discussions contributed heavily to this week...
...evangelical right, seemingly intent on transforming Big Brother into a bedroom busybody. Conservatives and many mainstream Americans, on the other hand, view the trend as a welcome response to the breakdown of sexual and family values. The reassertion of traditional moral values, they say, is part of a broad conservative realignment in the political process...
Despite these broad concerns, only a minority of Americans agree with the commission that pornography in general is socially harmful, although they tend to concede that specific forms can be destructive. Some of the survey's most notable findings...
...agreed to a courtapproved settlement under which the city was required to give half of all promotions to minority fire fighters. The white-dominated union asked the Supreme Court to overturn the consent decree. By a 6-to-3 vote, the Justices ruled that lower-court judges do have broad discretion to approve such consent decrees remedying past discrimination...
During the five-hour procedure, an Allegheny plastic surgeon detached a latissimus dorsi--a broad muscle that plays a nonessential role in controlling arm motion--from its connection points along the spine. Magovern slipped it into the chest cavity with the muscle's nerve system and major blood supply intact, then wrapped it around Jones' heart like a towel. After a week's recovery time, he began stimulating the transplanted skeletal muscle with a pacemaker, causing it to contract and help pump blood. Less than a year later, Jones reports that she can walk a mile or two without difficulty...