Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...praised the great benefits available form specialized education, but emphasized what he termed a tendency among professionals to ignore the broad needs of society...
JOURNALISTS wishing to advance their own views on a topic must usually follow certain forms; I wish to discuss Harvard in a grand and over broad manner, and hence must resort to the guise of review books that do the same. They, however, will be put down with a few snide and summary remarks, and I will then take my ego out for a stroll of some length...
...three leading contenders for Brezhnev's mantle has a major handicap. Kirilenko, who has rarely been seen in public in recent months, is believed to be ill. Chernenko, though a Brezhnev protégé, has no power base of his own. Gorbachev, who runs Soviet agriculture, lacks broad experience. Still, he is young and aggressive enough to accumulate power within the next few years as the elderly Politburo members...
Behind that broad accord, however, there was great disagreement over how exactly to bring down the size of the deficit. Liberals on the board want to raise taxes and cut defense outlays, while conservatives side with the Administration in urging further reductions in social spending. Heller, a Democrat, called for the elimination of next year's third and final installment of the personal income tax cut, and for major savings on defense. Those and related steps, he argued, could whittle the 1985 deficit to a manageable $75 billion. That would be a major drop from the $233 billion deficit...
...output cannot go in one show; it would have been burdensome to even the most dedicated Eakins student. Instead, the exhibition's curator, Art Historian Barrel Sewell, has intelligently chosen some 150 paintings, studies and photographs to provide a thematic, rather than a chronological approach. There are certain broad categories of imagery in Eakins. There are the rowing and sporting and sailing scenes. There are the paintings of medical and scientific inquiry. There are the horse pictures, the portraits, and so on. By sampling each of these, Sewell hoped to build up a convincing picture of Eakins' main...