Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer is less than clear. Most Presidents, afraid that too many restrictions would tie their hands in relations with foreign governments, interpret their mandate as broadly as possible. As a result of the nation's experience in Viet Nam, however, there is a move in Congress to narrow the presidential reach. Indeed, Idaho's Senator Frank Church has gone so far as to warn that U.S. presidential power is leading toward "Cae-sarism." "The Roman Caesars," he told his colleagues recently, "did not spring full blown from the brow of Zeus. Subtly and insidiously, they stole their powers...
Magaziner's principal recommendations are that collegians be allowed to choose courses in broad intellectual areas that interest them, rather than follow fixed requirements, and that conventional grades be abolished in favor of "pass" or "no credit." His report also urges professors to focus on concepts rather than narrow facts, and to work far more closely with individual students. These ideas are not especially original; Magaziner's achievement is the persuasive logic of his presentation...
...narrow Henley course allows only two crews to race at a time, and the loser is eliminated without benefit of a repecharge. Blind draws take the place of seedings, and if Harvard happens to draw Penn early they could be in trouble...
...Narrow Range. The most glowing testimonial to amantadine's value came, ironically, from the U.S.S.R.'s most famous vaccine developer, Dr. Anatoli A. Smorodintsev. The drug was given, he reported, in reduced doses of 100 mg. daily to 10,000 Russians in Leningrad, a flu epidemic area. Half of them did not develop flu at all; most of those who did had cases that were milder than average. According to Smorodintsev, the side effects were negligible-though Soviet researchers have been known to soft-pedal side effects before...
Proponents of antiviral drugs concede that a single agent, such as amantadine, is effective only against a narrow range of infections. But, they point out, that is also true of vaccines. Yet a hundred or more different viruses cause what is loosely called the common cold, and many more are responsible for other upper respiratory infections. For all virologists, the hope is that the laboratories will eventually yield antiviral agents, whether drugs or vaccines, that are more broadly effective...