Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there are other, more positive, reasons for a draft. Militarily, a draft that yielded a broad cross-section of the population couldn't help but improve the readiness of a force that has been plagued in recent years by illiteracy and low levels of education. As well, a democratic army would mean a return to an earlier day when people of different classes and backgrounds in this nation occasionally got to know one another...
...legislators passed a bill that reduced spending by another $4 billion. They did so at the behest of Reagan lieutenants who conferred only with Republican leaders and did not so much negotiate as tell them what the President would and would not accept. Moreover, Congress gave Reagan power within broad limits to take that $4 billion out of whichever programs he chose, over the anguished protest of House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jamie Whitten that "you might as well transfer full control to the Executive Branch and take the Legislative Branch out of business...
...summarize the financial results for the year; to identify and discuss the significant factors which these results reflect; and, most important, to select one or more major financial issues and opportunities which face the University and to discuss the University's planned actions in the related area within the broad context of the major administrative, financial, and educational initiatives being undertaken by the University...
Room 13. founded in 1971 in room 13 of Mather House, began as a drug crisis center but now deals with a broad range of students' mental health problems...
...phrase 'health or education institution' is broad enough to include a facility owned and operated by the shell corporation of a health or education institution..." Bownes added...