Word: encompass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jersey, the same family would receive $4,164, with no other circumstances of their lives changed. Washington sets some of the rules. To get at the funds, the states and localities meet the rules, often grudgingly, and then set some of their own. Rarely is bureaucracy flexible enough to encompass complex human situations. Often regulations that were sensibly written to prevent abuses end up strangling the system. A collage of the absurdities the rules have wrought...
...distresses about the sorry spectacle is that it is so singularly inappropriate a tribute to the memory of DuBois. He, above all, placed considerable emphasis on interracial cooperation. On more than one occasion he discerned "the beginning of wisdom in inter-racial contact", and sought-ever so indefatigably-to encompass "broader cooperation with the white rulers of the world," offering a chance for peaceful development of black peoples, and an avoidance of catastrophic race war. If only the whites, "the deaf and dumb masters of the world," could recognize that such cooperation with blacks on the bases of equality...
...speakers stressed that this informal coalition was an attempt to broaden the middle-class orientation of the antiwar movement to encompass blacks and workers...
...Post for $825,000, and together they set about curing its ills; while he and his associates strengthened circulation, advertising and news coverage, she crusaded for social causes (education, housing) through exposes and lectures. In 1944 she urged the Federal Government to set up a Cabinet-rank department to encompass the areas of health, education and welfare...
Crikey! God, Death, Self-Loathing -it is testimony to Amis' sophistication that he can encompass all these without ceasing to be funny. Mortality in all its implications, in fact, seems to have grown into his prime comic theme. It is a rich one, and a book like The Green Man, while not wholly satisfying in itself, suggests that Amis is going to be able to do remarkable things with it. One English critic has even maintained that Amis is turning into a satirist whose target is the biggest establishment of them all: creation as a whole. Amis...