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Word: scopes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decay of the city as a whole remains. The scope of Newman's solution is clearly limited. Ironically, one of the drawbacks of "defensible space," which Newman recognizes, is its tendency to displace crime to other areas. "Defensible space" is a solution to a solution -- the problem remains...

Author: By Elizabeth Healy, | Title: Room of One's Own | 4/24/1973 | See Source »

...vote was still not intended "to reflect a judgment on actual performance by a company," the Corporation stated. Harvard only said it would support disclosure requests of "reasonable" scope unless already public information "is reasonably complete when compared to the disclosure requested in the resolution...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: The ACSR: What Difference Can It Make? | 4/19/1973 | See Source »

...will take charge of an agency that has been considerably diminished in scope and somewhat demoralized in purpose. Some Nixon advisers felt that Smith had been too soft with the Russians in the SALT talks; so did Washington Senator Henry Jackson, chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security and International Operations. Jackson criticized the fact that the U.S. had given the Soviets a 3-to-2 lead in ICBMs and permitted them a 40% edge in missile-launching submarines, even if U.S. missiles were qualitatively superior. He proposed an amendment requiring any future treaty on offensive arms to provide qualitative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISARMAMENT: New Thoughts on The Unthinkable | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

...Acheampong will have a chance to think about holding elections and returning the country to civilian rule. But all this will be out of the question, he says, "as long as there is work to be done getting Ghana back on its feet." Given the scope of the job, that may be a very long time indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GHANA: The Burdens of Debt | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

...based on the fact that payment for the water-management costs was also weighted according to the amount of land. As in the property-tax case, the unsuccessful plaintiffs had alleged a violation of the Equal Protection Clause. The effect of the two decisions was to limit the scope of that clause, which activist lawyers had hoped to use to help equalize poor and rich neighborhoods in everything from garbage collection and road maintenance to street lighting and sewer facilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Paying for Schools | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

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