Word: broads
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Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping and other political leaders were expected to focus not on specifics but on broad strategic considerations. With the support of Administration officials, including National Security Adviser Richard Allen, the Secretary hoped to build a consensus between Washington and Peking on the two countries' shared wariness of the Soviet Union. Haig wanted to discuss the possibility of U.S. support for a united front in Cambodia against the Vietnamese-backed regime in Phnom-Penh. He also wished to explore the feasibility of cooperating with the Chinese in supplying arms to the rebel forces in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan...
...early 1970s, Lichtenstein was fond of quoting Matisse, that supreme artificer of images denoting calm and luxurious revery. Run through Lichtenstein's mill, however, the images lost this aura entirely, becoming stark, neutral or even disagreeable. The three fish in Still Life with Goldfish, 1972, a broad transcription from one of Matisse's still lifes of 60 years before, wear dyspeptic expressions and seem not at all pleased with the painting of a giant Lichtenstein golf ball on the wall behind them...
...females, who worked in a women's jail, guarded fewer inmates but had extra clerical duties. Relying on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a broad measure outlawing sex discrimination in the work place, the women sued. County officials maintained, however, that an amendment to Title VII offered by former Republican Senator Wallace Bennett of Utah incorporated a full set of restrictions contained in the Equal Pay Act of 1963. Under that law, suits are permissible only when both sexes perform "equal work...
...zoning power is not infinite and unchallengeable." Nor was the court impressed with Mount Ephraim's justification for the ban-that it would avert parking problems and the need for additional police protection-since the town allowed a variety of other commercial enterprises. The ordinance was overly broad, said the court, in that it banned all forms of live entertainment but failed to show how such entertainment posed special problems to the community...
Proposals to change the law, which will expire at the end of September unless it is renewed, have inspired unprecedented lobbying by a broad coalition of industries that include steel, auto and chemical manufacturers. They claim that it now costs about $25 billion a year to comply with the law and that many of the most expensive requirements result in only marginal air-quality improvements. Said a report last March by the Business Roundtable: "The act in its present form is inefficient, complex and overly costly without adequate recognition given to completing national goals...