Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said yesterday the department's scope was strictly limited to preventing sexual harassment within the department...
...role of the Houses continues to be worked out. Most recently, the two-year-old student-faculty Committee on Housing has addressed the difficult questions of the Houses scope and importance...
...Bernardin, the American Catholic hierarchy may have found a leader with enough personal appeal to gain a hearing among both liberals and conservatives for the belief that all issues relating to "the sanctity of life" belong together. The scope of the issues is growing: U.S. abortions now total 1.5 million a year, 1,270 convicts are waiting on America's death rows, and the nuclear arms race is escalating...
...attempts to control the flow of information and thereby define the nature of public debate. At various times, the President has proposed strict rules on contact between officials and reporters, used the FBI to track down embarrassing leaks, and moved to reduce the scope of the Freedom of Information Act and to impose lifetime Government censorship on tens of thousands of officials who have had access to classified information...
...opera of such ambition and scope, coming as it does late in the composer's life, naturally recalls a similar religious epic, Parsifal. Like Wagner's valedictory, Saint François is a spacious work of musical architecture, a cathedral in sound that generates a sense of timelessness or, more precisely, of time suspended. It unfolds at a stately pace, illustrating episodes from the life of the saint (the preaching to the birds, the visitation by an angel, the receiving of the stigmata), animated by the whole range of Messiaen's musical vocabulary. Strong, sharply defined motifs...