Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Parts of the scheme had been leaked in advance, and everyone assumed it was only an opening gambit. Even so, the scope of President Reagan's budget-cutting proposal was little short of staggering. As presented to the Cabinet last week, it would freeze dozens of politically popular spending programs and mark others for outright extinction. Among the phaseouts: the Small Business Administration and the Job Corps. In the plan's single biggest surprise, the President recommended a 5% pay cut next year for the Federal Government's 2.1 million civilian employees, an idea untried since...
Quixotic in the scope of their vision, the Catholic Bishops are essentially telling Americans that Christianity is incompatible with capitalism as it is currently practiced in the this country...
...against financial constraints. Judging from the xeroxed program and the spartan set, it appears that Producer Anne Dowden had limited financial resources. Yet in spite of these apparent budgetary constraints, both costumes and set reflect a careful attention to taste and detail. The set--like the scope of the play--is appropriately simple...
...scope of Reagan's support among all groups and regions is profoundly disquieting to Democrats. It could in fact be the death knell for the Democratic majority forged during the New Deal. But does it herald a new era of Republican dominance? Even though 38% of the electorate still call themselves Democrats, the exit polls did show an increase in the percentage of voters identifying themselves as Republicans, from 27% in 1980 to 32% in this election. Perhaps more important, more of those under 24 now use the Republican than the Democratic label...
...avoid the connection between illness and evil, and abstain from seeking the hypocritical solution of committing the sick to prisons that offer no treatment or hospitals that are no better than prisons. Discussion centered on two legal reforms: allowing for a verdict of guilty but insane; and restricting the scope of the defense by limiting judgment to a defendant's criminal intent (mens rea is the proper legal term) at the moment of the crime...