Word: overview
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Staff Howard Baker for preventing the right from using "red-meat issues" such as school prayer, busing and the death penalty to rally support for Bork. "I'm not sure the public has any idea what Bork stands for," says Phillips. "I doubt Howard Baker has any good working overview of what's going on in America." Meanwhile, the anti-Bork juggernaut was allowed to monopolize the media. Print and television advertisements assailing Bork's views on civil rights and women's issues appear to have been stunningly effective...
...WOULD BE RIDICULOUS TO TRY to summarize music history here, but it does seem appropriate to give a very general overview. For many people, classical music starts with J.S. Bach, who represents the apex of the baroque musical...
...chapter, which was written primarily by Nancy Rigotti, the associate director of the institute, will serve as an extensive overview of current scientific knowledge on the effect of such regulations for the Surgeon General's report, which should be released within the next few weeks, Pinney said...
...Mitchell suggested a major story on the realignments at General Motors. The idea was well received, but the editors also wanted to discuss other aspects of the business: the success of Ford's new cars, for example, and Chrysler's latest strategies. Enter the Special Report, a two-page overview of the U.S. automobile market in 1986, followed by one-page stories on each of the Big Three. Mitchell provided the substance of the stories from Detroit by interviewing, among others, the chairmen of the three automakers. "I was struck," he says, "by how much American and Japanese executives really...
...gratified by the reponse to the plans for the undergraduate festivities, especially the Grand Ball. Quite frankly, we thought it would be necessary to drum up people to come. Let me begin with an overview...