Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AFTER A NATIONAL search similar in scope to the one launched to find a new City Manager, the School Committee has narrowed down its list of candidates for Superintendent to two men: Medill Bair, the white superintendent of the Hartford, Conn., school system and Aflorence Cheatham, a black district superintendent in Chicago. Although Bair has been offered a substantial salary raise for his Hartford job, he is still open to an offer from Cambridge. If Bair is unable to fill the post here. Cheatham will almost certainly...
...size and scope, the new air war on the North exceeded the heaviest bombing of Operation Rolling Thunder, the program of gradually escalating air attacks that the Johnson Administration pursued so doggedly for three long years. By March 1968, when Thunder was finally cut back, the U.S. was losing 20 planes a month, and North Vietnamese civilian casualties, by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's estimate, were running as high as 1,000 a week. In the days following Nixon's TV address, the U.S. lost three planes and four crewmen. Ten MIGs were brought down by U.S. jets...
...dictionary of this scope must understandably concern itself only with the "greatest women," praising their "greatness" and treading more gingerly on their failures. It becomes our own responsibility, then, to find out about the millions of women excluded from the dictionary, women whose lives may have meaning for our own, though they have fallen short of "greatness"--maybe they are our own ancestors, our school teachers, women who have taught us to play the piano, to read Russian or to swim. These notable women are as much a part of our lives as are our heroines, and until we understand...
...mental patients is very expensive and since the staff at the Cambridge Hospital is small, the Community Service of the Hospital's Department of Psychiatry is working with organizations such as the Welfare Department and Neighborhood House to set up group after-care programs. Such efforts to increase the scope and quality of mental health services in Cambridge and Somerville must continue and accelerate if community mental health is to offer a real alternative to institutional care for the residents of this area...
...long sought to carve out a distinctive reputation as an enlightened, superbly coordinated international giant. To burnish its image, make friends and influence people, the company has put together a team of about 60 seasoned, high-priced specialists in public and Government relations and given them unusual scope to practice their craft. They are professional persuaders who try to woo the press, politicians, businessmen and anybody else who might be useful to the company. Except that it is somewhat larger and has more of a reputation for aggressiveness than most, ITT's public relations department is fairly typical...