Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blacks, however, viewed the situation not as an isolated incident of a police killing, but rather as an example of far-reaching social, political and economic discrimination. Soon after the boycott started, and when it became clearly effective, the United League vastly expanded the number and scope of their demands. Not only did they want Hanna and the other Byhalia policeman indicted for murder, they also demanded representation of blacks on the town board of aldermen, the county supervisor's board, and the local electric utility; an improved local sewage system; the addition of blacks to the police force; action...
...door, City Manager Sullivan complimented me on my presentation. As if that were the point. Such maddening nerve! Such insufferable arrogance! Such inability to comprehend the scope of community needs and desperation...
That mission was incorporated symbolically into the CIA's seal: an eagle signifying strength and alertness, and a compass rose representing the collection of intelligence data from all over the world. But as the cold war grew, so did the scope of the CIA'S duties. The law provided that in addition to collecting information, the CIA was "to perform such other functions and duties related to intelligence affecting the national security as the National Security Council may from time to time direct." Under that directive, the CIA actively began trying to penetrate and even roll back the Bamboo...
...problems besetting the U.S. economy these days are global in scope-and so, necessarily, was the reporting for this week's cover story. In response to detailed queries prepared by Business section Senior Editor George Church, who wrote the main story, staffers from nearly all of TIME's 27 bureaus around the world fanned out to take the measure of the general economic malaise. In addition, TIME's domestic correspondents were asked to add a personal dimension to the story by finding out how individual Americans are coping-or not coping-with inflation. The resulting vignettes, which...
Once he is confirmed, the Rockefeller style will at last have national scope. Even the Empire State has at times seemed too small a stage for Rockefeller's vast ambitions. There is no question that his plans are as extensive as his family fortune, stretching boundlessly in all directions. He was the chief promoter, for example, of revenue sharing, one domestic innovation of the Nixon Administration that seems destined to survive. If he is not a politician of remarkable depth-not especially eloquent or incisive-he is one of extraordinary breadth. His impulse is expansionist: where there...