Word: scopes
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Directed at a problem of this intensity and scope, Ford's message was generally devoid of optimistic promises. It was realistic about the limited role that the Federal Government can play in fighting crime, which is largely under state and local jurisdiction. The main thrust of Ford's proposals was to ensure that serious offenders go to prison. In this he seemed to reflect a growing consensus of both liberals and conservatives. Ford called for mandatory jailing, with certain exceptions, of persons who commit violent offenses under federal jurisdiction. He also urged a reform of the chaotic system of federal...
This is not the first time the nation has been shocked by the scope of its crime problem. In the middle and late 19th century, sudden prosperity, immigration and the dislocations of the Civil War produced several crime waves. In 1855 the gang population of New York stood at 30,000, and one gang posted notices that any policeman wandering into its neighborhood would be shot. At the turn of the century, Chicago saloonkeepers could expect to be held up every three or four days. Innocent gas-meter readers were being shot by paranoid householders. Newspapers observed that there were...
Rosovsky's proposed examination of education at Harvard inevitably raised comparisons with the 1945 Harvard study entitled "General Education in a Free Society," commonly referred to as the "Redbook." The announced scope of Rosovsky's undertaking led many to believe that it would eventually call for changes as far-reaching as the Redbook's proposals for the broad, interdisciplinary "General Education" courses, that have been a mainstay of curricula at Harvard and many other colleges throughout the country...
...size, scope and excellence of quality, the Robert Lehman Collection -now ensconced in a special wing of New York's Metropolitan Museum and soon to be seen by the public-was the last of its kind. It was started 70 years ago by the investment banker Philip Lehman, head of Lehman Brothers; his son developed it into a great private collection along the legendary pattern of the Morgan or the Frick. It ranges from Renaissance pottery and medieval acquamanilia (water vessels) to Rembrandts, El Grecos and an astounding collection of more than 1,000 14th-19th century drawings. Parts...
...specific moral choice, but rather why a whole nation allowed the deportation to occur. Consequently, both these films fail to cope with the fundamental issues involved in the occupation and so offer inadequate explanations of even individual motivations. In this sense, the Sorrow and the Pity, with its comparative scope and superior analytic technique, is a more penetrating investigation of collaboration than either of these films it has inspired...