Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case of a major grant, an institution submits to the Foundation a detailed proposal on the scope, general purposes, and intended uses of a project. The Foundation then sends copies of the proposal to outside experts for appraisal, the budget for the program is examined, and, if recommended, the proposal is either passed or rejected by the Trustees...
McLeod and his boss, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, explained that they dropped Corsi because he insisted on assuming more authority than they had given him. From the first, McLeod told the subcommittee, Corsi refused to stay within the scope of his position, and complained bitterly that he did not have a worthy title. McLeod said that he told Corsi: "Title-schmitle-what do we care about title. If you want a big title, we'll get you one." Nevertheless, Dulles and McLeod waited until Corsi came under attack from Pennsylvania's security-sensitive Democratic Representative Francis...
...only to enable Congress to confer the item veto power by statute. If the President got out of hand, Congress could pass a new law to meet the situation; if the legislature did not choose to withdraw the power completely, it could restrict the executive merely by redefining the scope of the words "item" or "provision...
...must be one of the principal apostles of peace . . . You must try to understand the heart of America, and how to translate that heart to other peoples . . . You cannot be leaders unless you understand each other and help nations understand each other. The scope of the understanding you must achieve far transcends what your illustrious commandant and I understood when we were waiting on the plain at West Point 40 or more years ago, receiving our diplomas...
...developments" by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who flew to Augusta for lunch. Dulles said that one subject discussed was the recent buildup of military power by the Chinese Communists opposite Formosa. Questioned by reporters, Dulles said that the buildup is "more intensive and more broad in its scope than anything we have recently known . . . This indicates a higher degree of [Communist] capability than we anticipated a few weeks...