Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faculty began to gear up for an impending crunch in professors, predicted to reach a peak by the year 2000. Graduate school officials launched an effort to reevaluate the scope and timetable of graduate education; a broad-ranging survey of College life was used to start planning for the next generation of undergraduates...
...have been compared with both Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, both in scope of your subject matter and in your treatment of the psychology and ideas of your characters. What is your relationship to each of these two authors...
...thing is clear, though: the intensity, scope and expense of the Government's reaction to Bracy's March 1987 statement would have been far different if the stage had not been set by a series of interagency disputes about security in Moscow...
...marveled. How could a Soviet citizen, laboring in Russia, have produced a work so rich in documentation, so scrupulous as scholarship and, above all, so harrowingly vivid in its recounting of the calamities inflicted by Stalin on his country? In the West there was nothing to rival it in scope. In the Soviet Union, where the book circulated among scholars, it restored a long-abandoned standard of professional integrity to Soviet historiography. As one Russian practitioner lamented, "Stalin beat out of us the capacity to think independently and to doubt, without which there is no search for truth...
...vitae,most of my colleagues assume that I am a member ofthe faculty. I take care to disabuse them of thatif I discover that they made that mistake. I feelquite comfortable to speak out on any issue onwhich I feel well-grounded and in which myresponsibilities cover that scope. I try to becareful not to extend my reach where I'm notwelcome or where it's not really part of my rolebecause one can tend to do damage there. One ofthe things that I explored when I was looking atthis job was just what exactly is this role, whatare...