Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...handed down during the court's current session, and it may be the most significant constitutional ruling in decades. Associate Justice Byron White, who entered an acerbic, almost bitter dissent, acknowledged the decision's "surpassing importance." But he described the majority opinion as "irresponsible" and of "destructive scope." Even Associate Justice Lewis Powell, who agreed with the majority that in this case the legislative veto was unconstitutional, complained that "the breadth of this holding gives one pause...
...requests for advice in development planning in poor countries, became the Harvard Institute for International Development in 1973. Similarly, the arms control work carried out evolved into the Program of Science and International Relations. In 1978, that program also became independent of the Center. The Center also broadened the scope and number of its seminars and established new links with the University. In 1971, it took on the first Student Associates--mostly graduate students and a few undergraduates writing theses--and created a new, intermediate position of Associate for almost 50 faculty members...
...private philanthropy. "We would never be able to accept a gift with strings or conditions attached to it," said O'Reilly, "but in this case, there were no strings and no conflict of interest at all "She added that the Fahd gift in no way seeks to control the scope or direction of the Semitic Museum's research, and that the foreign grant was treated like any routine donation...
Some persuasion, however, did take place. After the meeting with the CCSR, the ACSR broadened the scope of its inquiry from the question of screening investments to the University's South Africa policy as a whole. As the Committee spent more time on the issue and examined more evidence, several members who had balked at the rigid use of the Sullivan Principles as the standard of corporate behavior and at the establishment of fixed limits on correspondence with the managements of delinquent companies accepted these positions. General divestiture became a viable topic for debate...
...scope and fury of purges by ideologues may even be increasing. In the mid-'70s the Communist Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot undertook a savage "ruralization" plan that drove millions of urban Cambodians from their homes and even hospital beds into the countryside. The deaths have never been tallied. The planners of this barbarism were not peasants; they were teachers, economists and bureaucrats who had studied in France. Observes Johnson: "Like Lenin, they were pure intellectuals. They epitomized the great destructive force of the 20th century: the religious fanatic reincarnated as professional politician...