Word: encompassed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to the axiom that it's darkest right before dawn, a huge sunbeam should encompass the Indoor Athletic Building Monday morning. Harvard's weekend basketball hopes are about as dim as the overhead lighting in the antiquated sports complex...
...should not be allowed to become the pawn when the health and welfare of the world depend upon it. One dreams of the day when an effective U.N. could be responsible for the distribution and supply of world essentials, with proper reimbursement to the nation whose boundaries encompass the needed commodity...
...visible for miles downrange last week as it carried three rookie astronauts toward their rendezvous with the Skylab space station orbiting some 270 miles above the earth. The third and final Skylab mission was launched. The unprecedented stay in space may last as long as 84 days and will encompass the Skylab project's most ambitious undertakings...
...central question was whether the hijacking represented "war" or "warlike operations," and thus was excluded from general or all-risk insurance. Frankel concluded that even the term "warlike operations" does not "encompass the infliction of intentional violence" by nongovernmental political groups upon civilians far from the scene of any regular fighting. Even if the semi-organized armed clashes with Israeli forces were "warlike," that would scarcely extend "the adjective to all bombings, killings and destruction anywhere under P.F.L.P. auspices." The judge went on to state that the relatively tiny group's activities were also not part of any "civil...
...first phase of the transfer, completed in July, put all married student housing under direct University auspices. The second of the three phases will encompass faculty housing and commercial property in Holyoke Center, leaving only unrestricted housing for the final phases...