Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...politicians and cartographers, Syria is an invention of the 20th century. To scholars, however, the term also refers to a once vast, occasionally powerful, always proud empire. Greater Syria, as historians call the broad area east of the Mediterranean, has a long and bloody past. That region, which included the territory of contemporary Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel, was situated at the approximate point where Europe, Asia and Africa converge. As such, it was a traditional meeting place and killing ground for peoples of both the East and the West...
While the latest twists and turns in Soviet missile bargaining strategy were being pondered, some Muscovites were more interested in a drama that was being played out along Kalinin Prospect, the broad boulevard that leads to the Kremlin. There, Western diplomats last week were atwitter over the reappearance of a morning-and-evening official convoy that has not been seen for nearly four months: two black ZIL limousines, the sort reserved for the Soviet elite, protected front and rear by Volga security sedans. Atop one of the ZILs were red and blue lights, apparently an indication that Andropov was inside...
...there are other ways to get changes in Harvard's policies. One way is to convince the decision-makers that new ideas are worth-while. And this is best done by a broad coalition of students, faculty, and staff applying coordinated pressure on all fronts...
...should help [students] to understand the broad range of alternative careers that lie before them," Law School Dean James Vorenberg '49 told the faculty earlier this fall, "so that they feel they are making choices, not just following a beaten and easy track...
...complete the transformation of the Sears empire, Chairman Telling agreed to a request from the board of directors to stay on for 19 months past his planned retirement next May. The question of his successor is unsettled. In a company with this broad a sweep, the next chairman could come from the insurance, financial services or merchandise divisions...