Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...readers, are classics in the field. The former scolds and pontificates, but also explains the mysteries of that hallowed golden fleece: the diploma marked Veritas. The latter tends toward verbosity: 821 pages last year, and perhaps bulkier still when re-released September 8. Its strength lies in a vast scope combined subtly with a scrupulous dedication to detail...
TIME did not mean to imply that the higher final cost of the Jiddah airport was due to Parsons' mismanagement rather than changes in scope of the project...
...either side by Iranian Revolutionary Guards carrying rifles with fixed bayonets. Thus resumed the fierce battle for Basra, Iraq's second largest city, which lies only 14 miles from the Iran-Iraq border. Once again the fighting involved tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides, and in scope and intensity resembled the desert battles of World War II. The Iraqi forces of President Saddam Hussein fought tenaciously to hold their positions, and at week's end had managed to blunt the Iranian attack...
...billion on Jubail and its smaller sister project Yanbu, and plans to spend upwards of $100 billion more in years to come: "We simply cannot exaggerate what is going on out here." Jubail is, in brief, a project of moon-landing proportions, one that in the very grandeur and scope of its conception suggests a 20th century version of the opening of the American West...
Grand as the scope of Reagan's tour is, it will be tempered by the serious disputes within the Western alliance. The most complex of these will involve the economic issues confronting the leaders of the seven industrialized nations who will meet at Versailles.* The first Western economic summit was held in 1975 in Rambouillet, France, to grapple with worldwide inflation and soaring energy costs; not since then have so many economic problems seemed so difficult to control. For nearly three months, middle-level diplomats-known as "sherpas," after the Tibetan guides who lead the way to the summits...