Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Labor Party and its extensive welfare measures. The beginnings of Heath's quiet revolution were outlined in a budget that Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber presented to a packed House of Commons last week. The budget's basic aim is to reduce government spending and the scope of government activity while encouraging individual citizens and private enterprise to do more for themselves. The initial step was Britain's first tax cut in eleven years. Corporate income levies will be reduced from 45% to 42.5% next January, and personal income taxes will...
Under Michael Langham's forceful and fluid direction, the play moves in cinematic takes. But it is the era of the silent movie, compacted of melodrama and soap opera. How can such things have scope and stature? Why do they work and become deeply moving onstage? One possible answer is that at crucial, tense, catastrophic or ecstatic moments in the lives of men and women, they do behave like characters in melodramas or soap operas...
...motorcycle's appeal-the thrusting of the rider's body into space, the intrusion of the deafening noise into other people's ears, the practice of keeping motorcycles in girl friends' garages-suggest genital or phallice elements, but says, "Clinical evidence proves such approaches to be limited in scope and far too superficial. . . Clinical material does make it clear, however, that the motorcycle serves as an extension of what the patient considers his masculine self...
...charged and chosen few in whom the divine and the demonic hold alarming dialogue. There was a chance here to deep-psych a deplorable genius and put calipers to the phenomenon of religious fervor. Because Thomas passed it up, Aimee emerges as a personality who overflows the scope of the book. At her death she left (to her loyal son Rolf) an entire church-which now claims more than 193,000 members and property valued at $59,000,000. To Ma, she left...
Rhodes has been instrumental in reducing the commission's dependence on the President by opening up commission hearings to the public, and broadening the scope of its investigations...