Word: generally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...senior appointment, the most important thing to consider is the general quality of the candidate," Keohane said. "Specific areas of interest are secondary...
Clark has drawn fire from students and faculty for his decision this summer to eliminate the school's public interest placement office in an effort to cut costs. Despite his promise to transfer the office's responsibilities to a general placement office, 1055 law students have signed a petition demanding that Clark restore the full-time public interest counselors...
...general, it was not one of our better games," Harvard Co-Captain Char Joslin said, "but it was the first time we've won on turf in my four years here...
...people and wounded 17. Also in the crash aftermath, an alleged coup attempt in Burkina Faso that led to the execution of the second and third highest officers of government rated two paragraphs. Murders of Vietnamese settlers in Cambodia were cited in part of one paragraph in a more general story. That was in the Times, which excels in foreign coverage: in many other newspapers the events went completely unnoted...
...coverage. But typically this is because American corporate or other interests are directly involved -- as when Union Carbide's poison gas cloud killed 2,233 people in Bhopal, India, in 1984 -- or because humanitarian groups arouse American donors and volunteers, as happened with famines in Ethiopia and Biafra. In general, however, the scales are so tilted that Hurricane Hugo, which killed 51 people, got about as much coverage across the U.S. as the 1985 Mexico City earthquake that claimed 20,000 lives...