Word: gamut
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...them is pay, the other is job satisfaction. This satisfaction has to do with a whole gamut of things, such as where the person works, the working conditions, how much he can look forward to in terms of a stable kind of life. A major problem is that we have a very turbulent Army today because of U.S. overseas commitments. Personnel are constantly being transferred. In comparison, the West German army is tremendously stable. Its troops are all stationed on their own soil and in units closest to where they live...
Mayr, Agassiz Professor of Zoology Emeritus at Harvard, is one of the world's foremost experts on evolution, although his work of more than four decades spans the gamut of ornithology, systematics and the history and philosophy of biology. Director of the University's Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1961 to 1970, he has written many volumes on evolution, including Populations, Species and Evolution, Systematics and the Origins of Species and Evolution and the Diversity of Life...
...attributes his three divorces to his fascination), claims that bureaucratic obstinacy has hampered approval of the substance. Says he: "DMSO's too good. If I had said it was only of value for sprained ankles, it would have been approved. But when I talked about a huge gamut of usage, it was anathema. It had not been seen before." The FDA disagrees, claiming that it is open-minded about the drug Dr. J. Richard Crout, director of the FDA bureau of drugs, testifying last month at a hearing on DMSO before the House Committee on Aging, insisted that...
CONSIDER A Midsummer Night's Dream as a gamut for the stage, a series of isometric exercises for a theater company. In its roughly 2000 lines--far shorter than a Hamlet or a Lear--are scenes of courtly reserve and natural abandon, metaphysical mystery and droll stupidity, gathered up and joined behind the proscenium of Shakespeare's florid verse. Where a play like Troilus and Cressida yokes different forms of theater violently together, Midsummer Night's Dream carefully weaves them in, under, and through each other--thus the shimmering, unsettled brilliance it displays in the hands of a good director...
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