Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While virtually everybody recognizes the need for reliable intelligence, the CIA's other function-covert actions-is much more controversial because of past efforts to "destabilize" certain governments perceived to be inimical to the U.S. Yet covert actions have generally been more modest in scope and supportive of friendly, usually democratic nations and political parties. Few CIA officials, past or present, defend the large-scale paramilitary operations that led to disaster in Cuba and to considerable controversy, at least, in Laos. "Our mission was much inflated," says Jack Maury. "Covert operations can support but not substitute for overt policies...
...April 9, a group of about 300 pro-SDS demonstrators occupied University Hall, in an effort to publicize the SDS demands. The police bust that then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 ordered the next day expanded the scope of protest beyond the range of what had originally been thought of as a relatively small group of radicals; the repulsion felt by moderates among both students and faculty fueled the student strike that followed, and generated intense support for most of the protesters' demands, including those of Afro. The April 14 mass meeting in Soldiers' Field, which extended the strike...
...Griliches, Professor of Economics, said yesterday the article exaggerated the narrow scope of faculty appointments...
...history of planning is marked by a steady expansion of the scope of the profession. At each step, that change has met intense resistance. It was not many years ago that influential voices challenged the legitimacy of social planning. But the health of the profession is seriously endangered when innovators are threatened with excommunication. It is far better to subject our ideas to the test of competition in professional practice. Gary Fauth Associate Professor Arnold M. Howitt Assistant Professor Fred Doolittle Assistant Professor Julie Wilson Assistant Professor Michael Shapiro Assistant Professor David Harrison, Jr. Associate Professor Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez...
Sellars could not have entrusted the difficult task of unearthing this music to a more talented cast. Every role, large or small, gets its due; Sellars relentlessly exploits the Loeb's strength as a theater of monumental scope; lighting, sets and music all add their evocative sorcery...