Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kennedy School covers a broader range of research than other schools of government, such as the University of Texas' Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and Princeton's Woodrow Wilson school, Allison says, because Harvard's center runs the gamut from local, state, and national to international issues...
Designed to introduce the assembled company of educated men and women to current scholarship in most academic fields, symposia topics run the intellectual gamut from the Greek poet Homer to the latest discoveries about the AIDS virus...
...business with a widely reprinted ad for Britain's Family Planning Association that pictured a young man with a bulging abdomen and asked, "Would you be more careful if it was you that got pregnant?" The Saatchis aroused London's sleepy advertising industry with ads that ran the gamut from funny to blunt to dazzling. Their celebrated 90-sec. TV spot for British Airways seemed to show the entire island of Manhattan coming in for a landing at London's Heathrow Airport, a metaphor for the millions of passengers that the airline carries across the Atlantic...
...Winthrop and Leverett House film societies go for the diversity. "We show the whole gamut of films, like Cary Grant and Walt Disney," says Thomas D. Young '86, president of Winthrop's film society...
That sentiment is widely shared in the Philippines and in Washington. In both places, there is a near overwhelming sense that a chapter of history is almost over: the Marcos era. Over the two decades since his first democratic election in 1965, the President has run the gamut of transformation, changing from a populist reformer to a modernizing strongman to, in recent years, a fading and often grotesque shadow of his former authoritarian self. In the process, he has profoundly changed his country, at times in the past for the better, but of late decidedly for the worse...