Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That brought Judge Sirica back on center stage and in an unfamiliar and challenging role. In 16 years on the federal bench, Sirica had handled a wide gamut of criminal trials and civil suits, including highly complex antitrust cases. But now he was being asked to rule on an unprecedented claim by the Executive Branch that a President is immune from subpoenas because the courts have no power to enforce any order against him; that only the impeachment process of Congress can touch him. Moreover, argued Nixon's legal consultant, University of Texas Law Professor Charles Alan Wright, Nixon...
...large areas of Central Asia, the far East and Southeast Asia. At one time or another, Chinese power and influence have touched virtually every area of the world's largest continent. China has been expansionist whenever its government has been strong. Its inroads into other countries have run the gamut from cultural influence to population movement to territorial conquest. And until the modern period at least, China had retained a vision of itself as the central kingdom of Asia, a vision that consistently nurtured a belief in the country's cultural superiority and its primacy in Asia. During the 19th...
Horner's concerns run the gamut of issues affecting women and are hardly limited to the fate of female undergraduates at Harvard. Last year she had to wrestle with more general problems of Radcliffe's budget and of the 1971 non-merger contract defining the Harvard-Radcliffe relationship. Yet she also found time to initiate several privately-funded research projects she hopes will have national repercussions. Her lack of public visibility left many women confused by her priorities and disappointed by her performance. The deluge of new appointments over the spring and summer, however, reveals more clearly what Horner...
...whole band struggled with the Maharishi, there was even a time when Mike Love Had All the Answers. Not to mention those two South Africans. What they do is open to scrutiny. Nobody seems to like it. I haven't heard it. But the group's run the gamut from "Surf City" to "Marcella" to "Sail on Sailor," so I figure they must have something...
...whole bank struggled with the Maharishi, there was even a time when Mike Love Had All the Answers. Not to mention those two South Africans. What they do is open to scrutiny. Nobody seems to like it. I haven't heard it. But the group's run the gamut from "Surf City" to "Marcella" to "Sail on Sailor," so I figure they must have something...