Word: broads
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...change will shift public attention away from the director, said Counter, allowing him to work with a broad variety of students free of the responsibility for specific funding decisions...
Expert reaction to the rulings is considerably cooler. "Both decisions were wrong," says University of Pennsylvania Law Professor Paul Bender. "If anything, we citizens need more protection, not less." The Harlow decision is expected to have broad impact; scholars suggest that the Nixon ruling was noteworthy mostly on a theoretical level. Says Bender: "It has very little practical application. The chances of being able to prove a case against the President were always very small." Nevertheless, some experts welcome the ruling. Says Duke Law Professor William Van Alstyne: "I do not want a President of the United States to have...
...wing Christian Phalange, led by the Gemayel family. Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, the hard-liner who planned and directed the sweep into Lebanon, has even envisaged turning the country into a Phalangist-controlled state. Other Israeli officials, however, are more flexible and see the necessity for forming a broad coalition of all significant Lebanese political groups?including the Muslim leftists led by Walid Jumblatt, head of the so-called National Movement, which has been loosely allied with the P.L.O...
...similar to what France experienced in the 1960s under President Charles de Gaulle. Said a member of Thatcher's War Cabinet: "In the Falklands, Britain regained her self-respect, and in the process a new determination to play a major role in world affairs." That change could have broad implications. As Malcolm Rutherford, assistant editor of London's Financial Times, put it, Britain could "become more demanding toward Europe, less tolerant of the Irish Republic and generally a more awkward ally, taking a pride in British cussedness rather as the French took pride in being different under...
...broad appeal of the antinuclear arms movement, which up to now had been its main strength, may have become its most serious weakness. With so many constituents to please, the movement seems uncertain about what to do next. There is a vision of ultimate success, of course: the dismantling of all the world's nuclear arsenals, no more threat of annihilation. With this dream no sane person can quibble. Where the disagreement comes is over what workable, real-world arms control measures will be acceptable and, even more, how to achieve them...