Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps it follows that we are also too dull-witted to comprehend his subtle disappointment that Nixon's troubles "have been modest in scale"-no Bay of Pigs, no Cuban missile confrontation, no Tet offensive, no major domestic riots. We "middle Americans" might just like the "mood of calm" Mr. Nixon has evoked...
Last week in Paris, France's shopkeepers staged their biggest demonstration yet. Some 25,000 grocers and hoteliers, barbers and plumbers, from as far away as Corsica, crowded into the Pare des Princes stadium to protest stiff taxes and rising competition from modern large-scale retailers. They carried banners proclaiming "Crushed to Death by the Taxman" and "We Want to Live." Some wanted to fight, too. Swarming through the streets, 2,000 of them attacked police in a 45-minute fracas that ended in 30 injuries and 13 arrests. It was the worst clash since the May 1968 riots...
...because the School is affected by changes in society, specifically the outlook of American youth and changes in business on a worldwide scale," to set up a special convocation entitled "The Business School in Society...
...tutorials, have not been completely successful because they were considered piece-meal. "Tutorial as it operates now bears no resemblance to tutorial as we envisioned it. There were a series of economic compromises all along the line. May proposes to look at the curriculum on a larger scale, allowing consideration of more fundamental changes. One proposal recently circulating is to require only a set of examinations for a Harvard A. B. degree, instead of residential course work...
...scale of Intolerance is only slightly less astounding than the amount of control Griffith had over it. Its Babylonian main hall, over a mile deep, was fashioned to the smallest detail by carpenters whom Griffith instructed day to day. There was no more a script or a scenarist than there were blueprints or a set-designer: Griffith shot from his head...