Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter what I do, someone will be unhappy," Pyle says. "It is difficult to please a group of 50." The itinerary for the trip, which many of the students found limiting, is planned with a broad scope of interests in mind. Pyle says, "Every year we try to strike a balance that reflects the interests of the group. This class is more geared towards federal issues rather than rural development, but it changes from class to class...
Unfortunately, Reagan's policy toward Nicaragua is also anything but a model of clarity. From the start, U.S. backing of the contras has been marked by ambiguities as to purpose, scope and methods. The CIA began secret arming and training of Nicaraguan exiles in Honduras under the authority of National Security Decision Directive 17, signed by Reagan in December 1981. NSDD 17 specified the purpose as interdicting the flow of arms from Nicaragua to the Communist-led rebels in El Salvador. Hit-and-run raids by the contras could not accomplish that, however, and so, by April 1982, the goal...
...Most European governments agreed with Reagan that the Soviet maneuvers were within the scope of traditional war games. "It's not really as if these exercises came out of the blue," said a Norwegian defense expert. "The Soviets have them every year." But British intelligence detected political undertones. "These maneuvers were an act of defiance toward the Reagan Administration and its allies in Europe," said a senior offcial. The Soviet Union, in his view, is worried about the extensive U.S. military buildup and feels humiliated by the deployment of new nuclear weapons in Western Europe and, in response...
...Scope gives astrological predictions; Relax attacks stress while monitoring muscle tension through electric sensors in a headband; Bearings helps ham radio operators plot transmission distances; Hurricane aids meteorologists hi tracking storms...
...rape, and as such incitement of violence. This kind of language is in no way protected by legislative guarantees of freedom of political and religious expression. Most importantly, by labelling the newsletter "bad taste," the authors of the editorial, and others who feel similarly, fail entirely to understand the scope of the problem It is no "bad taste" to degrade other people, nor is it "bad taste" to encourage vilent conquest as heterosexual intercourse In racist literature it is standard to portray the persecuted as bestial or subhuman to Nazis, Jews were "vermin," to the KKK Blacks are "apes." Such...