Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waging large-scale war every 20 or so years, as is now the custom, we might, by popular demand, reduce the cycle to four or even two years. War could be held each time in some carefully selected remote area of sufficient size to give it the proper scope and background. This way, war production would never slacken, thereby creating jobs and stimulating economic growth...
This is a movie about a boy who falls out of a tree. It touches, in addition, on such evergreen themes as coming of age, loss of innocence and passage into uncertain manhood. Such an undertaking represents a narrowing in scope for Larry Peerce, whose previous effort, The Sporting Club, dramatized the decline of the West. In symbolic terms, of course...
...Master's definitions? What about people for whom eating each day, for example, was such a genuine struggle that religious introspection was, if anything, a luxury? He had said that we can recognize God's intelligence in the pattern of nature and in the existence of things beyond the scope of any single person's time on earth. But, I replied does the existence of a pattern as yet not fully understood demand our positing an extraterrestial intelligence or power? After all, any world in which we lived would appear patterned to us our pattern seems extraordinary only because...
...University moved close this summer to expanding its interests further beyond the scope of providing education. In August, it reached the final stages of negotiations for moving into the electric power industry...
...Institute of Politics is one of those unique institutions at Harvard: it has a lot of money to spend, many programs to offer and little student awareness of the scope of its activities. To most undergraduates, the Institute is an obscure yellow building nestled on Mount Auburn Street which makes a big entrance every fall when it introduces its extravagant seminar program dotted with famous names. After this initial splash, it is never heard-from again...