Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strongest opposition ever. It consisted of a nonsocialist coalition of the Center, Liberal and Moderate (conservative) parties, led by a ruggedly handsome farmer named Thorbjorn Falldin, 47. If he won a second three-year term as Prime Minister, Palme promised to embark on an intensified campaign to increase the scope of socialism. Falldin promised to halt that trend and to restore a measure of individual initiative to Sweden's increasingly straitjacketed society...
Three assistant U.S. attornies worked on the Watergate case prior to Cox's appointment. Under these circumstances, Vorenberg said, the Watergate investigation could not be properly carried out. He said that the "scope and problems of the investigation weren't understood" by the Justice Department prosecutors. He denied that the investigation was 90 per cent complete when Cox was appointed...
...Popular Unity Coalition of six Left parties. Despite the threat from the Right, Allende and his supporters revolutionized Chile in their brief stay in power. Led by Popular Unity and other Left groups, Chile nationalized the industries of the North American plunderers, redistributed land and income and expanded the scope of popular decision-making in the factories and the communities. Hundreds of thousands of Chileans regularly clogged the streets in Santiago to demonstrate in support of what was finally their government...
...Manhattan's Continental Baths, a gaily liberated Turkish bath that imports outside entertainment on weekends. But since then, Midler has left the Continental Baths far behind, and her brand of "trash with flash," as she identifies it, has made her a rising pop star of national scope...
...foreign governments (inevitably, the agency imbued its own efforts with a code name: the Anagram Program) or to tap the telephones of organized-crime figures. Some of the burglaries directed against Mafia types were authorized by various Attorneys General, but J. Edgar Hoover apparently never revealed the full scope of FBI burglarizing to his many bosses. Hoover eventually decided in 1967 that surreptitious entries should be discontinued because they posed more of a risk to the FBI's reputation than he wished to take...