Word: extents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Tufts Director of Dining and Business Services Patricia J. Lee, the decision to carry Fresh Samantha corresponded with a strategic plan that emphasized entrepreneurship. She says Tufts was interested in supporting local and regional enterprises "to whatever extent possible...
What is uncommon in my case is the extent of Harvard's disregard of its own rules for tenure review and its flouting of basic requirements of fair process. What also sets my case apart is that a member of the Harvard senior faculty, with imagination, audacity and an unusually lively sense of fair play took an interest in what happened and concluded that something should and could be done about...
...middle of the conversation [the Kosovar doctor] took out of his jacket a makeshift little wallet," Leaning says. "He had a picture of one of his patients... he also had two photographs of microscope slides... documenting the extent of the infection in the central nervous system...
With Rubin's resignation and Summers' ascension, the question arises: To what extent did Rubin's personal strengths make possible the enlarging of the Treasury Secretary's mission? The former Goldman Sachs partner spent years as head of the firm's arbitrage desk, a position in which he had to make billion-dollar bets based on inadequate information, the kind of predicament that he says often confronts public officials. To him, the decision-making process should focus on probabilities rather than the absolute nature of any choice. "It's not that results don't matter," he says. "But judging solely...
...This case seems to show the extent of the shambles in the U.S. intelligence establishment," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "The operation to train Muslims to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan during the '80s has proved to be a disaster. And there's an obvious lack of coordination between different arms of the intelligence establishment -- this former field officer of a foreign army turned up as a sergeant in one of the U.S. Army's most sensitive special warfare facilities after having been turned away by the CIA as a security risk in 1984. So there's an obvious question...