Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...female student suggested that women writers be treated in a separate course with a more limited scope...
Consumerist Appeal. One reason is the burgeoning scope of the FDA'S activities. The agency's budget has ballooned from $5 million in 1955 to $279 million this year. Its 7,000 employees, half of them scattered through 17 locations around Washington, are charged with regulating a staggering $200 billion worth of goods yearly. Its powers have grown steadily ever since the agency was founded in 1907 under crusading Pure-Food Advocate Harvey Wiley, chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture. In 1938, after 107 people died from use of a sulfanilamide preparation that was supposed...
...Mayhew had done for London workers in the earlier years of Queen Victoria's reign. He identified a class and made it visible. Before him, Jacob Riis had taken a camera into the slums of New York City, but Hine's range and output were larger in scope than Riis'. He was the first American to produce, with a camera, a fully sustained body of images that made people look back beyond the product to the men, women and children who had made it. His photographs altered the meaning of the verb to work as profoundly...
...Brimmer rejected proposals by DuBois Institute Student Coalition (DISC) to widen the scope of the Institute to include current social and political problems of the black community as well as supporting graduate research...
...several ways, new views in psychology have followed the previous leadership of Anthropology, a discipline which profited from cross-cultural scope, and therefore more cosmopolitan perspectives. The American Anthropological Association has issued a statement describing homosexual and bisexual variations as common across many cultures, and well within human adaptations which are quite normal. Distinguished anthropologists who have persuasively articulated this position include Ashley Montagu and Margaret Mead, who has stated that she considers fear and condemnation of sexual variation to be a destructive malad-justment...