Word: scoped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, my classes this semester are consistently challenging, both in reading and in lectures. I am learning about the themes of American women writers, the scope of African-American literature, the range of California authors and the Rome of Augustus. Sated with a reasonable amount of sleep, I find myself arguing in my head with the professor during lecture and later going to office hours. I write notes in the margins about books I should check out from the library--and then I actually check them out. My mind spins during lecture with links to other books I have read...
...that Senator Fred Thompson badly overplayed his hand when he asked for a $6.5 million hearing budget. Majority leader Trent Lott is already worried that the public sees the Hill probes as witch-hunts; he may, in a deal with Democratic minority leader Tom Daschle, end up shrinking the scope and duration of Thompson's hearings...
...accounts and Nazi gold. It turned out to be something of a journalistic U-turn as well. "Previously my reporting in Switzerland was limited to the occasional business item," says Sancton. "Suddenly I was confronted with a Swiss story of major proportions, one with intrigue, human drama and historical scope." The tale, as Sancton tells it, is broader than Swiss banks and gold ingots. "It's all part of a great reckoning that is taking place as the world prepares to turn the page on the 20th century," he says. "It's a healthy, if often painful, process...
...could offer "serious journalism" knowing that viewers had noplace else to go. The explosion of cable and satellite communications made it possible for network competitors to distribute tabloid TV shows like Hard Copy and afternoon talk shows that viewers lapped right up. The rationale for this expansion of the scope and language of news was that all-purpose term relevance. Coincidentally, that was the opening through which all kinds of "new" news rushed through the gates that once separated mainstream journalism from its black-sheep brethren. Thus the divorce of Donald and Ivana Trump "shed new light on the issue...
...pursuit of rational self-interest is the moral ideal whose political corollary is a free society in which the individual rights are inviolate. In short, the individual lectures as well as the series as a whole were intended to present to the Harvard community some idea of the scope and content of Ayn Rand's historic intellectual achievements...