Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Curle's commitment to crusading action seems overriding, but his professional bearing--the tweedy outfit, the unkempt sandy-gray hair, the contentment with a soft chair and quiet office--hints at the unshakeable academic. In fact, his range of concerns is startling in its scope...
John T. Dunlop, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy and chairman of the committee, said yesterday that the group is narrowing the scope of its investigation to a limited number of problems. But he declined to comment on what the committee might recommend "until we have the whole package ready...
...literalists": those who, like Madison and Taft, interpreted their powers narrowly and subscribed to the Whig theory of the President as an errand boy for Congress. At the other end are what Yale Historian John Morton Blum calls the "latitudinarians": those who, like Lincoln and Wilson, gave wide scope to the Constitution's vague charter...
...Unable through its own machinery to cope with that and other potentially explosive social problems, Government has increasingly turned to business for help. "Government alone cannot meet and master the great social problems of our day," says Presidential Aide Joseph Califano. "It will take public-interest partnerships of a scope we cannot yet perceive...
...Crime legislation, including control of firearms distribution, assistance to local law-enforcement agencies and regulation of wiretapping, could not survive disagreement over the measures' purposes and scope. A House bill to make interstate travel for the purpose of inciting riots a federal offense died in the Senate...