Word: scoped
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Staff members from the union and the University both devoted months of time to try to figure out the scope of the problem. At one point, a Microsoft Excel file included 70,000 lines...
...While Soderbergh's technique brings such crucial themes into focus, it falters by sometimes scattering the scope of the film and jolting the audience from more traditional scenes. Otherwise, The Limey is entertaining as well as innovating. The casting of Terence Stamp and Peter Fonda, whose long and acclaimed careers have paralleled one another on either side of the Atlantic, complements the comparison and contrast of their characters in the film. Stamp's portrayal is at the same time brutal and pathetic. After being humiliated and beaten, Wilson retaliates against his attackers-however, his extreme violence reverberates as frustrated helplessness...
...skeptical when a studio concentrates its publicity efforts on the "grandeur" of one of its projects. We aren't told about the quality of the acting performances or the superb writing of the script. No, all the information disseminated is that Anna is epic in it's sweep and scope. The directing may be poor and sloppy, but the five thousand costumes built from scratch look really, really nice. The acting may be flat and wooden, but the studio employed enough elephants and horses for a single shot of the mile long royal procession. The plot may be incoherent, trite...
These state laws, and the surrounding controversies, run parallel to the national debate on health care: Next week, when the House of Representatives opens what promises to be a heated debate on managed care and the scope of patients? rights, watch for newly disenfranchised physicians to join forces with powerful ?- and unlikely ?- political allies. The Wall Street Journal reports that many physicians, fed up with their corroding autonomy, are turning away from their Republican roots and appealing to a new group of allies: liberal Democrats. While politics and medicine have coexisted since the dawn of modern insurance policies, the stranglehold...
...scope of the wide-ranging Y2K computer problem was demonstrated yesterday as representatives from state government to food retail addressed the matter in a public forum at the Cambridge Senior Center...