Word: broads
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Even so, the "departure" provisions are too broad for the sole dissenting commission member, Rutgers Law Professor Paul Robinson, who charges ! that the report is riddled with loopholes. "If Congress asked for Rambo," he says, "what it got was Don Knotts." Counters Commission Member Stephen Breyer, a federal appeals judge: "Departures shouldn't occur that often." When they do, he adds, the reasons that judges give "will be analyzed, and the guidelines will be refined." The new system is scheduled to go into effect in November, but the commission, which is a permanent body, has recommended that Congress delay implementation...
Many of those changes either have been made or are under way. A program of tariff cuts and import liberalization has begun for a broad range of goods, including machinery, rubber tires and textiles. Rafael Alunan, a strongly nationalist local manufacturer of synthetic fibers, decries such moves as a "form of economic slavery, a way to keep us poor." Nonetheless, by April 1988, 90% of the country's imports should be free of quotas...
Konstantin Korovin's works are a good example:in "On the Seashore in the Crimea" (1909) and"Portrait of F.I. Chaliapin" (1911) he avoids anysense of illusionistic depth, but uses broad,multi-directioned brushstrokes and flat,juxtaposed bright colors to give an impression ofthe atmosphere of a summer...
...level, and I expect senior appointments to be made as well. Secondly, the Harvard colleague whom you quoted was correct when he told you that "The History Department...has tended to want to appoint the best minds they can find...They are less concerned about fields." That is so, broadly speaking, and it applies to the whole Department, not just to American history. I find it easy to justify the principle. Specific subfields may pass the test of time, or they may not. The best historians, however, can be expected to exert a lasting influence upon the discipline...
...political elite is nervous about the investigation. It is widely assumed that the conclusions will paint a grim portrait of the Israeli government. Shamir's associates are bracing for a verdict that will be a broad, stinging indictment of the recent tendency to delegate too much - authority. But they do not anticipate any findings that will contradict Shamir's repeated contention that the Pollard affair was a "rogue" operation. "I don't think it will point a finger at the political leadership, but it will point to a very disorganized system that permitted this operation in the first place," says...