Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great extent this has been done. Nothing lies beyond the scope of the inquiring lens. The assimilation of the world goes on faster and faster; the camera furnishes us with our prototypes. "Instead of just recording reality," Sontag argues, "photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality, and of realism." Nevertheless, the photo is a fiction: reality unfolds in time, and photographs do not. "Through photographs," Sontag writes, "the world becomes a series of unrelated, freestanding particles ... It is a view of the world which denies interconnectedness, continuity...
...added, however, that Harvard and the union have used the previous bargaining sessions to define the scope of the talks by agreeing on the issues to be discussed...
...right-and left-wing groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Panthers and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Not until 1971, a year before his death, did Hoover, alarmed by the threat of exposure, suspend the program. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence exposed the full scope of COINTELPRO'S partly unconstitutional mission in 1975, but only last week did the full extent of the FBI's dirty tricks become public. Reporters from eight news organizations, who had demanded to see the files under the Freedom of Information Act, forced the release of 52,648 pages...
...last week the council did the predictable, and skirted the conversial. It appointed a special committee, but left the task of defining the scope of the committee's mandate to Rosovsky...
Both of the committees are interdisciplinary and would have had to limit their scope if incorporated in any legislative committee. Indeed, this was ostensibly the point of having a Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs--to bridge the gap between the Agriculture Committee and the Labor and Public Welfare Committee. Forty percent of the members of Nutrition were to come from Agriculture, 40 per cent from Labor and Public Welfare, and 20 per cent from the Senate at large. Although this mix of disciplines was not built into the Aging Committee's structure, it clearly is part...