Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This built-in disparity may be unavoidable for a writer who insists on dealing at novel length with the highest levels of power. But by limiting his scope to 20 pages or so and by observing Washington at its fascinating upper-middle levels, Ward Just has been able to get his hands on substance that can be worked effectively into fiction. Just's settings are the private office of a moderately important Senator, a routinely luxurious Spring Valley living room, the featureless bachelor apartment of a CIA economist. In these and similar places, a little sex occurs, a little...
...Cobb begin to analyze what causes the against-the-mainstream behavior of the hard living families and how the internalized feelings of class break down. Howell says only that specific family problems can explain hard living on a case-by-case basis, and that societal explanations are beyond the scope of his book...
...impartial and professional Environmental Impact Statement would point to the problems enumerated above. Unfortunately, preliminary indications are that the environmental review may not be thourough. The scope of work statement submitted to the community by the General Services Administration two weeks ago was flagrantly biased in favor of the library as currently planned...
...Library Corporation's problems, the preliminary "scope of work" statement for the EIS, prepared by the General Services Administration, met with strong criticism from almost every quarter, and was branded as "sloppy" and "fraught with biases and assumptions...
...addition, Oliver Brooks, chairman of the Harvard Square Development Task Force which sponsored the meeting, announced that the Task Force has strong objections to the General Services Administration's (GSA) preliminary "scope of work" statement for the required Federal environmental impact study...