Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...having problems of perception. The voters have been re-nominating incumbent Congressmen by the bushel while rejecting some other experienced officeholders out of hand. Last week's California primary was probably the most revealing so far. With gubernatorial races in both parties and an anticorruption referendum of unprecedented scope and complexity, Californians seemed to be saying that they are standoffish toward all candidates. At the same time, the voters are enthusiastic about fundamental political reform...
...General Services Administration (GSA), which controls the national archives and will own and operate the Kennedy Library after its construction, was charged with administering the study. The agency spent six months defining the scope of the study and held competitive bidding for a $200,000 contract to conduct the study...
Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, says that the St. Clair Stonewall--trying to delay a Supreme Court ruling on the tapes, refusing to cooperate with federal Judge Gerhardt A. Gesell in the "plumbers" trial, hoping to limit the scope of the House impeachment inquiry--gives the impression that Nixon has something to hide...
...Radcliffe's $3 million annual budget, is especially important to Horner because it is undergoing changes that reflect her own interests. The institute is generally known as an elite, exclusively academic institution but now, under new grants Horner got during her first year in the presidency, is expanding its scope...
Although southern areas of Rhodesia are still virtually free of guerrilla activity, even the limited scope of the resistance thus far has put severe strains on the 2,500-man white army and the 1,000 blacks of the Rhodesian African Rifles, who are supported by 45,000 army and police reservists as well as 5,000 South African police. Reserve call-ups have severely depleted the labor force, a problem exacerbated by the refusal of white trade unions to allow the training of blacks in many crafts...