Word: extents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They were both right. The criminal case against North had divided the complicated scandal into discrete and comprehensible acts, like lying to Congress, tampering with evidence and illegally converting funds to his own use. But such narrow charges barely touched broader and still unanswered questions: To what extent was the former National Security Council staffer, as he claimed in his defense, following orders when he led a secret effort to provide assistance to the Nicaraguan rebels in defiance of congressional bans? Were present and former Government officials, including Ronald Reagan and George Bush, involved in a cover...
...extent that U.S. policy is changing, Bush is subtly but surely shifting to a harder line than the Reagan Administration followed. Not with any great consistency, however; in the absence of a clear lead from the President, various officials have been filling the air with words and actions that send out clashing signals as to just how tough the Administration means to be. Some examples...
...addition, several experts who have visited the school have concluded that the extent of the problem was limited to ventilation. Giroux said that in 1983, a committee from the state found a high, but non-toxic level of carbon dioxide at the school. Later that year, David A. Link, chief of pediatrics at the Harvard-affiliated Mt. Auburn Hospital, confirmed those results...
...life. With a curt, 17-line note to West Berlin's new culture minister Anke Martiny, the Salzburg-born Karajan, 81, severed his often troubled relationship with an orchestra widely regarded as the finest in the world. The reason given was ill health, but to an even greater extent Karajan was bowing to pressure from both his restive orchestra and the West Berlin senate...
This show is the first in a generation to restore Reni; the last one, in his native Bologna, was in 1954. To a great extent it succeeds. When the various phases of Reni's work are assembled, he comes across as a far more diverse and interesting painter than one ever expected. His precocity and rate of absorption were equally striking, and they made room for sly humor, as in a pastiche of Caravaggio he did around 1605, when he was barely 30: David with the Head of Goliath, the David sporting a raffishly theatrical feather...