Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three years, Iraq and Iran have been like scorpions in a bottle, stuck in a war that seemingly has no end. Well over 100,000 from both sides have been killed; thousands more have been taken prisoners. Now, a new element may enter the grim struggle, possibly altering its scope and stakes: according to French press reports, neither confirmed nor denied by the authorities over the weekend, the French government is sending to Iraq five highly sophisticated Super Etendard fighter-bombers. The planes, flown by French pilots, were said to have taken off from Landivisiau air base in Brittany, bound...
Garrity also narrowed the scope of a similar order concerning reports of assault and battery received by the University to include non-academic staff only...
Since 1981 industrial policy has developed into a center of the nation's debate over the government's proper role in the economy. Controversies within the young field encompass problems of definition, scope, and feasibility...
Starr was significantly aided by a three-year stint at Harvard's prestigious Society of Fellows, which afforded him the freedom to enlarge the scope of his project...
...footage was drawn chiefly from public records and from the recollections of figures whose views are well known. The intent is to tell why the U.S. went to Viet Nam, how it lost a sense of purpose in being there, and how and why it left. The scope of the six-year, $4.6 million project is impressive: the production team obtained 94 hours of film-200,000 feet-from archives in eleven countries and conducted 5,000 transcript pages' worth of interviews. The principal reporter, Stanley Karnow, 58, first went to Viet Nam in 1950, when it was still...