Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regulatory agencies are swamped with work, partly because most of them were set up without anticipating later business changes that have greatly increased their scope. The FCC was set up to police radio, telephone and telegraph, but in the last six years has had to pass also on 400 TV permits without a commensurate increase in staff. Despite the tremendous growth in stock issues...
...Premier Felix Gaillard had belabored Murphy with the paradoxical French arguments that, on the one hand, "the essential question dividing France and Tunisia is the aid which the Algerian rebellion gets from Tunisian territory"; on the other, the Algerian war is a purely French concern and hence outside the scope of Murphy's mission. Added Robert Lacoste, Minister for Algeria, who sometimes seems to think he is running French policy from Algiers: "Good offices consist purely and simply of putting the two parties in contact. They should not be confused with mediation or arbitration. A mediator suggests solutions...
...emphasized the scope of the group's activities, nothing that current theatrical problems are only one of the committee's concerns. He announced that all theatrical groups have been asked to submit their ideas concerning the role of drama in the College...
...reason for the change from "chiropodist" to "podiatrist" is today's scope of practice of America's foot specialists. Corns, calluses and ingrown nails are common foot conditions, but the podiatrist diagnoses and treats diseases, injuries and deformities of the human foot by chemical, physical and mechanical means...
This noble exit from history's stage was written by Shakespeare for Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, one of the great Englishmen of his time. This biography, the first appropriate to the scope and splendor of Wolsey's career, makes excellent reading on three counts: it evokes the vast historic tide that submerged the Middle Ages in the frothy waters of the Renaissance; it tells a whodunit about who would rule England's roost; and it is a success story of a butcher's son who rose to highest honors in his country and his church only...