Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What's remarkable about Franklin's film is its refusal to move beyond the scope of its characters. One True Thing is a small, almost claustrophobic story - but its deep complexities make for a far more emotionally vast narrative than even the most grand-scale love story...
Such questions are beyond the scope of this inquiry. (There's a sentence you haven't heard in Washington lately.) But another question is admissible: Why do Washington opinion leaders seem to have more trouble than average Americans imagining themselves in Clinton's shoes? Oddly, the problem may be that they consider Clinton a peer. Clinton and the politicos and the pundits all inhabit the same basic social arena. And social proximity makes detachment difficult. It breeds rivalry and enmity, hence harshness of judgment. True, it can also breed friendship and alliance, hence leniency. But for Bill Clinton, a gladhander...
...scope of this plan is simplyunprecedented. Princeton's massive aidincrease--which its officials hoped would bolsterthe school's desperately low percentage ofstudents on aid--was per student the mostexpensive of the aid changes announced thisspring, costing around $1,300 per capita...
Harvard spokesperson Alex Huppe added that Rudenstine's trip was not strictly academic in scope. It was also aimed at wooing potential donors to Harvard's $2.1 billion capital campaign, due to be completed...
...former Ovitz associate expressed surprise that Ovitz would get into talent hand-holding again given that he was so sick of it when he left Creative Artists Agency in 1995. But managers, unlike agents, can act as producers, so the new Ovitz enterprise could have a broader scope than CAA. Those who doubt Ovitz has the patience to deal with finicky stars should note that he recently stepped in to help Barry Levinson cut a deal with Warner. And Ovitz?s old friends at CAA are painfully aware that he has taken ample office space on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly...