Word: broads
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Reagan was partly right-and partly wrong. While the two Cabinet Secretaries agree on certain broad policy goals, there has been a long series of disagreements between them. With its ad hoc case-by-case approach to problems overseas, and without a strong hand at the controls of the National Security Council, the White House has allowed the competition to ripen. Indeed, Weinberger has been "committing foreign policy," as he puts it, more vigorously than any Secretary of Defense since Robert McNamara two decades ago. The dissonance between Weinberger's generally hawkish views and the usually more moderate approach...
...Student Assembly, formed in 1978 after eight years without a student government, originally had broad student support with twice as many candidates as seats an high turnout in the first election...
Since the new category has no strict guidelines on content, as departments--and areas of the Core do, it will consist of courses with syllabuses too broad for a department or the Core...
Under the proposed revisions, existing laws directed specifically against anti-draft and anti-war protesters would be strengthened, a new provision would target anti-nuclear power activists for special investigation and prosecution. The bill would give judges broad new powers to deny bail and to imprison people accused of any crime while they await trail. This so-called preventive detention seems to conflict with the Eighth Amendment and certainly undermines the basic assumption that a person is innocent until proven guilty. The legislation would also effectively nullify the "exclusionary rule" that has invalidated the use of evidence obtained illegally...
...criteria used in selecting the Jefferson Lecturer are that he or she be a "distinguished humanist," he able to communicate his or her ideas to a broad public, and he able to relate these ideas to public issues and affairs." Leonard Oliver, an NEH official, said yesterday...