Word: larger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent months over whether Washington's mediation efforts led by Ambassador William Bowdler, one-time ambassador to South Africa and former Chief of Intelligence and Research at the State Department, have been in good faith. America's long history of pro-Somoza interventions and aid has led the larger part of the opposition to conclude that the U.S. should not be trusted this time, either. Fearing the Americans seek an equally conservative but less controversial successor for General Somoza--"Somozaism without Somoza"--many opposition splinter groups have recently left the formerly comprehensive Broad Opposition Front, which favors the negotiation...
...1950s and 1960s, the Glee Club was much larger than it is today, with up to 150 members. "Then there was a freshman Glee Club and an upperclass Glee Club," Robert L. Holz '80 said. "Each performed as separate bodies. Each had its own management; they even cut separate records." In the early '70s, as the number of men in the College dropped due to increased female admissions, officials decided to merge the two groups and reduce the number of members...
...hold the perimeter of freedom even in the absence of a big Navy and an effective covert capacity. The evidence so far casts some doubt on the wisdom of that plan. Indeed, Carter himself has changed in some ways and, after promising to reduce defense spending, now seeks a larger budget...
...produced, the standing joke is "If my boss calls, get his name." Robert Daly, president of CBS Entertainment, and Bud Grant, programming vice president, moved to Los Angeles to be nearer production. They were handed what seems to be a blank check to order pilots, giving them a much larger choice than their predecessors ever had. "They are grinding away very quietly there," says one Hollywood producer. "They are very low key, but they are working." So far, however, the results are not very impressive. One show, Coed Fever, was taken off the air after the first outing. Others, like...
Bowersock refuted the widely held contention that these reforms apply only to large departments, stating that while the reforms "take into account larger departments, they are meant for all departments." Faculty ignorance of the reforms is a dangerous harbinger for the future of any reform attempt...