Word: gamut
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...reflections about revolution. It also requires a serious interest in labor, from the way most people spend their lives to the history, and especially the mistakes, of the labor movement. Since many of these subjects are now taught, it is difficult today to recall accurately how narrow was the gamut run at Harvard between behavioust psychology and studies in the new criticism...
...during the past two years established an unfortunate record of making loans that go sour. In 1982 it suffered a major blow from the failure of Oklahoma City's Penn Square Bank, which had sold Continental $1 billion in shaky energy loans. Currently, its beleaguered borrowers run the gamut from Argentina to International Harvester. During the first quarter of 1984, Continental's problem loans increased by $400 million, to $2.3 billion...
...strength of the book is the manner in which Dzeich and Weiner restrain their tone to one of reasoned rational analysis, letting the words of victims and the stories of cold reactions to the scandals within universities create a sense of outrage on their own. Their stories run the gamut from verbal harassment to threats of assault. One woman from a community college reported...
...consider this a radical position, but recent reactions to the slogan have shown that many others do. In addition to the usual skepticism, responses have run the gamut from slight amusement to overt hostility...
Police forces in Chile, according to Amnesty, inflict not only routine beatings but also a gamut of abuses referred to in sardonic slang. El telefono (the telephone) consists of blows with the palms of the hands on both ears simultaneously; la parrilla (the metal grill) is an electrical shock administered to the genitals; el submarino or la banera (the submarine or the bath) is a treatment in which the victim's head is held under water almost to the point of suffocation. Says Grantham: "Torture does not occur simply because individual torturers are sadistic. They tend to be servants...