Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the yordim reply that they have left for one reason only: greater opportunity. They believe Israel cannot offer the scope, either financially or intellectually, that the émigrés are seeking. Says Columbia University Sociologist Amitai Etzioni, a former Israeli who came to the U.S. in 1958: "In Israel, you deal with Israel. In the U.S., you deal with the U.S., the world-and Israel." Cardiologist Yzhar Charuzi says that his career would have been stunted if he had remained in Israel. "Here I have my opportunities," says Charuzi, now head of the coronary-care unit...
Despite the scope and maturity of the movement?and in some ways, because of it?women suffered a number of setbacks in 1975. The organized women's movement fell into factional disputes. The National Organization for Women designated Oct. 29 as "Alice Doesn't" Day and called on women to stage a no-work strike; it was a spectacular failure. Betty Friedan, a godmother of feminism, joined twelve other current and former NOW members in a splinter group called Womensurge, arguing
Academically, too, the schools have been making progress. In the past five years, the number of new or expanded on-campus programs-women's studies, career counseling and intercollegiate athletics, for example-far exceeds the number reduced in scope or dropped entirely. Finally, contrary to the widely held belief that enrollment at private colleges has been steadily declining, the total enrollment in the schools surveyed has actually risen 8% since...
...even less development in this love. But the unreal quality of their relationship in no way makes either of them less believable. Like the interfering omniscient narrator, this flaw is superfluous and can be ignored without damage to the novel as a whole. As she continues to widen her scope and refine her technique, Drabble will probably take care of these imperfections next time around. By then, the mirror should be polished...
...Traffic Controller Charles Hewitt at the Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center relieved another controller. Scarcely a minute after he came on duty, Hewitt saw an alarming sight shaping up on his big, dimly lit radar surveillance scope. The two green phosphorescent data blocks -small, illuminated groups of numbers and letters giving the altitude and heading of each flight-were moving perilously close to one another at a combined speed of 1,000 m.p.h...