Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ballots of 150 million voters were laboriously counted by hand at tabulating stations in the electoral districts, the scope of the Congress Party's reversal reached dramatic proportions. Down to defeat went five Cabinet ministers, four state chiefs, and even the president of the Congress Party. The party lost control of governments in three states-Kerala, Orissa and Madras-and fell short of a majority in five others, in which it will almost certainly have to form coalitions with opposition parties...
...scope of effective foreign policy making is extremely limited. It is relatively easy to take a foreign policy position, and to announce, say, Massive Retaliation or non-recognition or hemispheric unity. It is easy enough so that foreign policy making sometimes looks easier than domestic policy making; the pressures are less obvious and immediate. But any foreign policy maker who supposes that relations among sovereign nations are not determined primarily by their internal politics is in for some unhappy surprises. His bravely announced policies will have consequences, but not the consequences he anticipated. Foreign policy is really foreign politics...
...sensitive because the Ford Foundation both helps the Joint Center and is also involved with ABCD. Moynihan insists, however, that both his and Harvard University Press's hesitation in publishing the manuscript is due not to fear of hostile reaction, but rather doubts that a work of such limited scope is appropriate for publication in book form...
Such is the spiderweb scope and space-age sophistication of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the nation's deep-secret seeker of foreknowledge in the dim, cold demi-world of international intelligence. CIA is America's chief combatant in what Secretary of State Dean Rusk calls "a tough struggle going on in the back alleys all over the world, a never-ending war, and there's no quarter asked and none given...
...atmosphere of vague discontent has grown the Federation of Teaching Fellows. The Federation is less than a week old, and even its most ardent supporters do not believe that it can solve all the TF's problems. Its specific demands are nebulous, and even its general purposes and the scope of its membership are still uncertain. But it has given the teaching fellows a vehicle for expression, and at least until it has had a chance to prove itself effective or ineffective, it is likely to serve as a focus for a multitude of complaints and proposals...