Word: extents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fundamental principles. The aim: to uproot the sexism and inequality they feel are inherent in Western legal thought. "The law has been written with men in mind," explains Professor Mary Coombs of the University of Miami Law School. "Feminist jurisprudence puts women at the center and asks, 'To what extent is this doctrine or this area of law designed in a way that implicitly assumes people...
...Cambridge Hospital is impacted by these revenue cuts to a greater extent than most hospitals due to a disproportionately higher number of Medicaid and uninsured patients," Healy wrote in the plan...
...thing that can be said with certainty about perestroika is that it has exposed how difficult rebuilding the Soviet economy will be. The obstacles are greater, the situation more dire and the fixes more fundamental than even Gorbachev suspected four years ago. "Frankly speaking, comrades, we have underestimated the extent and gravity of the deformations," he told a Party Conference last year. Nikolai Shmelev, one of the country's radical economic gadflies, has put it more vividly: "We are now like a seriously ill man who, after a long time in bed, takes his first step with the greatest degree...
...damage to its image by initially misleading the press and local residents with assurances that its beach cleanups and booming operations were well under way. But on Wednesday Exxon spokesman Donald Cornett admitted that beach cleanup had not started and that one boat had just sailed around gauging the extent of the spill. Later that night he was greeted in nearby Cordova by citizens displaying signs that read, DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU HEAR. ESPECIALLY AT ALYESKA AND EXXON PRESS CONFERENCES...
That droves of high-school students shell out $600 for this instruction indicates the extent of SAT-mania. Although some colleges, such as Harvard, weigh the SAT only moderately in the admissions process, high-school students and their families see the SAT as the golden key to college...