Word: broads
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While many of his primary challengers promoted broad spending plans and radical change to government programs in the face of Republican governance, Capuano said he tried to strike a balance between political necessity and pragmatism...
...along with his brother Jeb, a winner in Florida -- is ready to take a new Republicanism to the national stage, the kind that women and minorities can support. "The Bushes are saying that moral issues have hurt the party," says TIME Austin bureau chief Sam Gwynne, "and they have broad enough support -- Hispanics, blacks, even Jews -- that they don't necessarily need the religious right." They got it anyway; exit polls indicated that along with everyone else, right-wing voters supported both Bushes. So the GOP may have its player -- but given what's about to happen to California, will...
...populations of the various Houses, he stated in 1928, "the division should not be based upon differences in the subjects studied or the career the members intended to enter;...on the contrary, men interested in various fields of thought should be thrown together with a view of promoting a broad and humane culture...So far as subjects of concentration, pecuniary means, and residence in different parts of the country are concerned, each House should be as nearly as possible a cross-section of the College...
...Circuit Court of Appeals--a reversal that Microsoft viewed as decisive. Justice is now making a more wide-ranging argument that there is a pervasive pattern of Microsoft's using its monopoly on PC operating software--Windows--to coerce other companies to do its bidding in a broad array of other business relationships. "It's not necessarily any one contract but the pattern of conduct over the course of time and the cumulative effect that the contracts have," says University of Minnesota Law School dean E. Thomas Sullivan...
...icon a century later. Streeton painted not wilderness but settled pastoral land, framed by vast space. In The Purple Noon's Transparent Might, 1896 (the title is from Shelley: culturally, England still bore strongly on these highly nationalist artists), the high-keyed light and crisp, decisive brushwork create a broad, deep and coherent space brimming with heat...