Word: encompassing
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Since the creation of the Progressive Undergraduate Council Coalition (PUCC) this year, the council as a whole has retooled its focus, broadening its conception of its mission on campus to encompass everything from the controversy over Phillips Brooks House to divestment from Nigeria. While the long-term effects of this shift in priorities are yet to be determined, the immediate result has been a massive increase in the energy and spirit with which the council debates issues...
...Making college education available to all Americans by expanding the federal work-study program to encompass one million students, increasing the number of Pell grants and maintaining the National Service Program...
...real marvel, says Conway Morris, is how familiar so many of these animals seem. For it was during the Cambrian (and perhaps only during the Cambrian) that nature invented the animal body plans that define the broad biological groupings known as phyla, which encompass everything from classes and orders to families, genera and species. For example, the chordate phylum includes mammals, birds and fish. The class Mammalia, in turn, covers the primate order, the hominid family, the genus Homo and our own species, Homo sapiens...
...some of the most knowledgeable people on campus in the field of public service--the student and non-student directors of Philips Brooks House Association (PBHA). As we did in a previous editorial, they supported Greg A. Johnson '72, the director of PBHA, for the position that will encompass his current...
...minutes time slot is crucial. Those hour-long specials never fail to fall flat, and you can hear the groans across the country when "To Be Continued" flashes across the screen. The American attention span can just barely encompass 30 minutes, and heaven forfend that viewers should have to remember what happened last week! That's what those little "Last Week on...."blurbs...