Word: broads
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Berkowitz's raises two broad procedural objections in his grievance. First, he alleges that the ad hoc committee convened to discuss his appointment was not well-constituted; some of its members lacked expertise in his field, while others were predictably antipathetic to his cause...
...recent federal court decision striking down racial preferences in admissions to the Boston Latin School, the city's most prestigious public high school. If the high court decides to hear the case, it would be the first appeal involving affirmative action in the realm of public schools. A broad ruling could have widespread national repercussions, setting a precedent for any race-conscious policy in any school district...
Whitesides earned the national honor for his broad-based research spanning the fields of chemistry, biology, biochemistry and materials science, leading to innovations in heterogeneous reactions, organic surface chemistry, transition metal chemistry and enzyme-mediated synthesis...
Merrill, you see, was the first person to openly advocate that the stock market should not just be a plaything for Wall Street insiders but should also be an avenue for the broad mass of Americans. Decades before founding Merrill Lynch, he coined the phrase "Bringing Wall Street to Main Street." For the last 17 years of his life, that's what he tried to achieve with his new firm, which became a laboratory for his grand experiment. Today when we conjure up the names of the great American financiers, we tend to think of people like J.P. Morgan...
When Walton died in 1992, with a family net worth approaching $25 billion, he left behind a broad and important legacy in American business as well as a corporate monument. Wal-Mart stores is the No. 4 company in the FORTUNE 500, with annual sales of close to $120 billion, ranking behind only General Motors, Ford and Exxon...