Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Smith said he believed the American system of justice remains strong, especially following the recent restrictions by the judiciary on the executive branch. But he added that it was "outrageous to think that a party to an adversary proceeding (the president) could determine the scope and content of that proceeding...
...growth and the generally increasing affluence for the middle and upper classes, if not for Cambridge's ethnic and black working class majority, the City Council has been the focus of local bush-league Spiro Agnews. The Council decides zoning changes, hence to a great extent, the scope and character of Harvard's growth. And, with speculators vying for land in the Harvard-MIT strip for commercial and apartment development, there has been a lot of loose money available for political influence. The interests of the working class family, still by far the greatest percentage of Cambridge residents, have...
...scope of federal authority is now so vast and diverse that no member of Congress or executive branch department head can be aware of, let alone be able to exert any meaningful influence over, more than a fraction of even those issues and programs within his or her particular sphere of specialized responsibility...
...MOTHER AND THE WHORE has been picked up for theatrical distribution in the U.S. That may be somewhat surprising, in view of its intimidating length (more than 3 ½ hours) and rigidly intimate scope: mostly three characters, a young man (Jean-Pierre Leaud), a young girl (Franchise Lebrun) and an older woman (Bernadette Lafont), toying with one another, taunting and seducing one another, finally vanquishing one another. The movie is direct and relentless, full of tough insight about the rites of what sometimes passes for love, and fierce in its final impact. Director Jean Eustache wrote the painstakingly accurate script...
...demands for diagnosis may be the greatest contribution anyone can make to reduce Negro agony in this country for coming generations. The cover-up of my theories dwarfs Watergate in scope and significance." --William B. Shockley, professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University...