Word: broads
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There is a broad consensus on campus that this situation must change. Thousands of undergraduates, minority student organizations, a high-level faculty committee and even President Bok have identified recruitment of minority and women professors as a critical issue...
...result, the research for which he won the Nobel Prize has had a broad impact on physics in areas ranging from radio astronomy to particle physics...
Earlier yesterday, 18 Lutheran Church leaders issued an appeal in East Berlin calling on East Germany's communist government to approve broad democratic reforms and urging all sides to refrain from violence...
Race Discrimination. The court's conservative turn was underscored by last term's civil rights and affirmative-action rulings, which made it more difficult both to prove discrimination and to obtain preferential treatment. This week the Justices will explore how broad is the power of federal courts to remedy discrimination. Taking up a volatile dispute from Yonkers, N.Y., the court will determine if a judge may compel city council members to vote for a housing-desegregation plan. Later, in a case from Kansas City, it will decide whether a judge may order tax hikes to finance a school-desegregation plan...
CUTTING CAPITAL GAINS. A broad tax break for capital gains, as the House approved and President Bush supports, would in the long run be expensive and dumb. Applying the break to investments we already own does nothing to encourage us to make new ones. Any tax break should be on future investments only...