Word: encompasses
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Just as the first round of SALT was little more than a formal probing, so any early meetings on troop reductions will probably be concerned with working out a common vocabulary, or "dictionary," in the parlance of negotiators. Once that is done, the actual negotiations would have to encompass specific questions not only of manpower, but also weaponry, the balance of foreign and national forces and the scope of defense budgets. With luck, the first probings could begin this summer, preliminary negotiations by fall and perhaps substantive negotiations some time...
...both image and narrative levels. Internal contradictions remain implicit and unarticulated dualities, emotional more than rational. The illusion-reality double ending is perhaps the film's ultimate equivocation, refusing to make even one unambiguous political statement on the crude level of extending the corruption of one cop to encompass his buddies on the police force as well. The film signifies nothing political, but leaves us with a single fascinating freeze-frame fetish to perceive however we wish...
Little Appeal. Then, too, there was the military's Project 100,000, launched in 1967 to meet the rising manpower needs dictated by a lack of volunteers and by the many educational deferments. So named for the number of eligible draftees it would encompass each year (but actually a Pentagon euphemism for lowering the military's physical and mental standards), the program reached into the traditionally rejected pool of society's marginal youth, chronic dropouts and underachievers-about 175,000 in the first 28 months. Inducted, trained for battle and little else...
...program, which will encompass 300 to 400 students, was initiated following the report of a joint committee. The committee was set up in 1967 by President Pusey and M. I. T. President Howard Johnson, with Dr. Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Harvard Medical School and Dr. Jerome B. Weisner, provost of M. I. T., as co-chairmen...
...hour-long meeting with the committee last week, Pusey said he was interested only in results which encompass a thorough sampling of Law School students' opinion. The task is imposing...