Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Each vocation is selected by graduates from a broad distribution of concentrations," the report said. Of all the career fields, medicine had the most clustered distribution, with 74.9 per cent of those interested in medicine concentrating in science and math. This percentage, however, represents a 5 per cent decrease from last year...
...working group headed by Christopher was immediately set up and started to prepare bargaining tactics. The group weighed two possible strategies: detailed negotiations that would resolve all the financial and trade issues before a hostage release or a "quick and clean" approach that involved only a simple statement of broad principles by the U.S., which would lead to an immediate release but leave the details for later. The group opted for the quick and clean tactic...
WCAS-AM, "the Cambridge alternative" radio station, stopped broad-casting this weekend despite attempts by community members and the WCAS staff to keep the debt-ridden station...
...latest of a long line of rules promulgated since Congress, in 1863, first made it illegal for officials to make decisions that might affect their own financial interests. The 1978 act puts real teeth into that idea, requiring a more detailed disclosure of assets and thus opening up a broad range of hitherto ignored potential conflicts. In addition, the new law makes it much harder for officials to dump their holdings into a blind trust. Under that arrangement, a trustee exercises control over the assets, theoretically shielding the officeholder from conflicts of interest. Yet these devices tended to be what...
...deterioration of the economy." He hopes to trim an additional $30 billion to $50 billion of nondefense expenditures. But despite such grand claims, the Carter budget will remain the centerpiece for discussions about 1982 spending. The Reagan Administration will be able to alter some parts of it, but the broad thrust of federal spending during the next fiscal year has been set and will remain...