Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which comes to fairly tame conduct when one considers that after ten days of the scare, the motives, the scope and the murderer(s) remained unknown. Yet there is an astonishing amount of pure wide-eyed trust that people give their social structures, no matter how fragile they are shown to be. What the public has done in the face of this particular emergency is simply to shift its faith temporarily from the pillmakers and sellers to several other social institutions: the Government, the police, the media. These institutions are hardly those that the public always believes...
Most recently, Jerry has attacked Pete for his views on Proposition 12, a nuclear freeze referendum. Pete drifted from a probable "yes" before the primary to a flat "no" afterwards. In a somewhat assbackward argument, he claims the initiative's scope is too limited to satisfy him. He would support it if it called for an arms reduction prior to the freeze, even though normal logic dictates production must stop before reductions can be negotiated...
...problem," said Assistant Dean of the College Marlyn Lewis, "was one of communication. No one told us the event was changing scope so dramatically. When we heard, we did everything we could to arrange a valid compromise. But we couldn't allow music in the Yard and insure the tranquility of the libraries and dorms...
...great passion in life--the importance of getting an international perspective on people's lives," he says now, adding, "It's frightening how totally ignorant we are, even here at Harvard where the scope is wider." In the admissions office, this passion translates into handling some of the foreign admissions load, chairing the committees that award several prestigious traveling fellowships, and co-authoring with Admissions Director William R. Fitzsimmons '67 and three others this fall's comprehensive report on the experience of foreign students at Harvard. Nationally, he will soon begin chairing a committee on immigrants' children and their adjustment...
...horrified that, having occupied the Muslim sector of the Lebanese capital, the Israelis had not only failed to protect the lives of the Palestinian civilians within their jurisdiction but were deeply implicated in the events that led to the mass murders. Two days after the scope of what had happened was fully understood, Reagan took to national television to restate his determination to get the Israelis out of Lebanon, and announced he was sending the U.S. Marines back to Beirut, along with French and Italian troop contingents, to try for the second time in five weeks to maintain the peace...