Word: scoped
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...been quiet so far, but if the bill passes in the House, that could change quickly. Democrats are grumbling over an apparent intrusion into states? rights, and although President Clinton has not taken a stand on the bill at this point, "it is definitely on the administration?s radar scope," says Donnelly. It's likely that conservative poster boys Hyde and Nickles, long wedded to the idea of a less intrusive Federal government, will come under fire for their refusal to accept Oregon voters? autonomy. And if the bill makes its way through the Senate, there could be legal fireworks...
...1980s, courts in Maine, New York and Oregon allowed similar suits to proceed almost unnoticed. But the New Jersey court has a reputation for issuing cutting-edge rulings in employment law. (The state's liberal decisions on sexual-harassment law foreshadowed a national push to broaden the scope of such law.) Eighteen other states have similar antidiscrimination statutes, with no minimum age. "If the same issue were raised in one of those places, the plaintiff's counsel would say, 'They did this in New Jersey,' and the court would pay attention," says Michael Ossip, chairman of an American Bar Association...
Despite the addictive four-on-the-floor quality of the single, however, Surrender is not especially focused on partying but on extending the scope of sounds. For example, "The Sunshine Underground," the album's halfway point, anchors the album with eight minutes of instrumental music, moving from an Indian-tinged opening to an insistent, psychedelic loop. The album closes with "Dream On" (featuring Jonathan Donahue of college radio favorites Mercury Rev), an impossibly beautiful song that begins with delicate guitar strumming before soaring into its synthesizer refrain: the perfect comedown after too many electric highs...
...thorough analysis, by several groups within Harvard, has been underway to assess the scope of this situation," University President Neil L. Rudenstine said in the statement...
Last week their suspicions gained supporting evidence. A 43-page report released by the American Civil Liberties Union showed the problem to be of national scope. Citing police statistics, case studies from 23 states and media reports, the organization asserts that law-enforcement agencies have systematically targeted minority travelers for search--pedestrians, motorists and airline passengers--based on the belief that they are more likely than whites to commit crimes. Says David Harris, the University of Toledo law professor who wrote the A.C.L.U. study: "It affects blacks and Hispanics from every station in life and every geographic location...