Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even large organizations with broad, fixedagendas, tend to choose negotiation over publicconflict. Students working for the Harvard Unionof Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW)organization drive focused their attention onbuilding community support for the union. Bydistributing pins, posters and balloons, thestudents intended to create an atmosphere wherestaff members considering the union would be lessinfluenced by the University's anti-unioncampaign.Massive rallies like this 1985 divestmentprotest are growing rarer as student groups branchout and choose smaller, more pragmatic goals...
Wolfe shows in his accurate, yet broad brushed treatment of the city that people's lives have a logic dictated by their birth and their profession. Whether a Loman or a McCoy, you still have to get your foot into the door. Yet, for their origins alone, a Loman and a McCoy shall never meet...
...drudgery endured by most Soviet women, the First Lady expresses attitudes that reflect popular aspirations. In a letter to TIME, she strikes a series of chords that show her to be in tune with her female compatriots. Selflessness. Self-sacrifice. Keepers of the hearth and home. From such broad themes, it is only a small step to the primary preoccupation: coping with life as it is, rather than dreaming how it might be. What does a woman want...
While the General Secretary left the details vague, Soviet and American space scientists have long discussed the broad outlines of a joint mission. The most probable venture, an unmanned mission in 1998 to bring Martian soil back to earth, would blend the strengths of the two nations' space programs. "The Soviets have the ability to put massive amounts of material into space," says John McLucas, a NASA adviser and a former Secretary of the Air Force. "But they rely on other countries to supply a good fraction of their instrumentation. We do things in a more refined...
...Meese makes a lovely target. Broad and a bit blubbery, trusting and more than a shade bumbling, the Attorney General is planted firmly atop the disintegrating ramparts of the Reagan Administration. He is the last centurion of the far right who stands out there, his banner still thrust high...