Word: scaled
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Watson's determined language indicates the scale to which the College was dedicated to ending the parietal problem. Dean John E. Monro, told reporters he was anxious and upset about the parietal rule infractions...
...good times Baker refers to in his title are from 1947, the year he joined the Baltimore Sun, until 1963, when Kennedy was assassinated. Yet to come were full-scale war in Viet Nam, civil unrest, Watergate, gas lines, stagflation, and the proliferation of junk food and junk politics. Unsurprisingly these not-so-good times provided Baker with his best material as a columnist. But as a memoirist he seems to be finding that Russell Baker is a tough act to follow, especially if you are Russell Baker...
Seldom are glory and dread quite so thoroughly mingled for so many. And seldom is history played out on such a grand scale, minute by minute, before such an enormous global audience. Though the drama had been building all week, the countdown began early Saturday morning, after Li announced in a televised speech that "we must end the turmoil swiftly" and ordered troops into the city. While Li's raspy voice echoed from Tiananmen Square's loudspeakers, sirens wailed and blue lights flashed as an ambulance arrived to take away yet another weakened hunger striker. A full moon, shrouded...
...coups or intermittent mass protests, are extremely rare and all but unheard of in situations in which the state wields so much force. Without a core of . ideologically inspired revolutionaries, without its own Jacobins, Bolsheviks or even latter-day Long Marchers, China is unlikely to have a full-scale revolution...
Councilman Jim Street, a proponent of the construction limitations, explains that many citizens "believe the direction of the city has been parting from their values -- open space, reasonable traffic, retaining the characters of the neighborhoods, a downtown that's ((built on)) a more human scale." Says Barbara Dingfield, an opponent of the restrictions: "In 1972, during the Boeing bust, we would have voted to increase building heights, we would have voted for an airport. A lot of that is driven by what the sense of the local economy...