Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...analyst of Viet Cong strength for the agency in 1965-67. He charged that the CIA conspired with the military and other U.S. intelligence agencies to hide the Communists' true military strength from the American public in 1967 for political reasons and ended up misjudging the potential scope and ferocity of the Tet assault. Adams said that while U.S. officials were claiming that Communist forces in South Viet Nam totaled about 300,000, the actual figure was about twice as high...
...Tears of Rage" is a song with a much broader scope; certainly it is the most effective rock and roll song to deal with the problem of parents estranged from their children. At a time when the Beatles were singing the baual "She's Leaving Home," the point of which was that parents have to give more than money to their children, Dylan was penning the rock equivalent of King Lear...
...Powers will also have issues of more limited scope to worry about this year. Powers expects a rising number of sex discrimination complaints by women--consistent with the national trend--but that Harvard will have few legitimate cases to deal with. Complaints by homosexuals claiming discrimination may also surface at Harvard this year, in view of the growing gay rights movement in the Boston area. But Powers says that the University's policy of non-interference with the sexual lives of its employees should limit the number of grievances of this nature...
...fair to Hough, whose book is more about a patient guardian than a martyr. Gifford's assumption of responsibility for Kimberly Ann Regan, the victim, seems all too Christian, but it makes sense for a man whose equanimity has depended, since a decision 34 years earlier to limit his scope to a Cape Cod town, on the preservation of a profound order within that community. Gifford's dedication to the community is so abiding that he feels called upon to write its history upon his retirement. The obliteration of Kimberly Ann Regan within his purview is too much for Gifford...
...stealing a television set, they discovered notes outlining a plot to assassinate Ford during his visit to Sacramento. Santa Barbara Detective Robert A. Zapata reported that the notes told how the two men had planned to break into an armory in San Francisco "and get guns, a sniper scope and dynamite...