Word: scoped
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...political will had been there. Instead, they argue, priorities were driven by real estate developers' huge profits and by the widespread corruption that has made stories of collusion between developers and venal officials commonplace even in China's strictly controlled media. Details may never come to light, but the scope of the corruption problem was underscored last year when Beijing's deputy mayor Liu Zhihua was arrested for what the official media described as "corruption and degeneracy." As a consequence of the rebuilding, a medieval city largely unchanged since it was formally laid out by Mongol conquerors as the capital...
...Levin-Reed, which reached the Senate floor Thursday afternoon, is the most carefully engineered measure designed by Democrats to limit the scope of the war. It directs the Secretary of Defense to reduce the number of U.S. combat troops in Iraq and alter the remaining forces' mission to three smaller roles: force protection, training of Iraqi forces and counter-terrorism operations against al-Qaeda...
Classes start in three days, and that means it’s time to crack open the Courses of Instruction, scope out the CUE Guide, and examine course syllabi—that is if you can find them. Students are expected to complete their work on time ,and there’s no reason that expectations for professors should be any different. When professors fail to punctually perform their teaching responsibilities before, during, and after the school year, students suffer. Unfortunately, a disturbingly large number of Harvard faculty are currently shirking their responsibility by not posting course syllabi online...
...From the beginning, The Body Shop was against animal testing and for Third World development, getting its materials from small communities in poorer countries like Guatemala (aloe vera) and Nambia (marula oil). Over the years, the scope of campaigns that Roddick had taken up - and that Body Shop has supported in its storefronts - grew and expanded. Now a tube of lip gloss can increase awareness about domestic abuse and a bottle of perfume is a weapon in the fight against HIV. "She made shopping a political act," says her friend Josephine Fairley, co-founder of organic chocolate company Green & Black...
...hired Rogers in 2001, at the start of Faust’s tenure as dean of Radcliffe. Faust said in Friday’s announcement that Rogers was a “key member” of her leadership team at Radcliffe, helping “to define the scope of the new institute and build support for its mission among Radcliffe alumnae and new supporters...