Word: scopes
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...that of the banks; 2,500 credit unions and caisses populaires (Quebec credit unions) remain important retail outlets; 150 life insurance companies offer a wide range of investment vehicles; 80 mutual fund companies command 77 percent of the Canadian mutual fund market. Canadian banks, due to their size and scope, constitute five more competitors in each of these markets, not leviathans standing astride any one of them...
Duke's Springfest most closely resemblesHarvard's in scope. A one-day event that takesplace in the school's main overlappingquadrangles, it features craftspeople, foodvendors and varying entertainment...
...year mission. While the Jones matter rested on her word against the President's, Starr is armed with tape-recorded assertions by Lewinsky that implicate Clinton in sexual acts he specifically denied under oath and in an attempted cover-up of those acts. "Our facts are very different; our scope is very different," Starr told reporters as he recited the allegations that the Attorney General instructed his office to examine: subornation of perjury, intimidation of witnesses and obstruction of justice...
Nonetheless, even as such conservative jurists as Wright and Scalia have limited what counts as sexual harassment, they and their liberal counterparts have consistently broadened the grounds on which Americans can sue for it. Every time the Supreme Court has ruled on workplace sexual harassment, it has broadened the scope of "standing" for those claims: from the simple, easily understood quid pro quo (if Clinton had said, "Kiss it, or you're fired," for example) to the more convoluted cases like those involving a "hostile work environment." Just last month the Supreme Court, usually hostile to gay rights, even allowed...
DIED. KARSTEN PRAGER, 61, worldly wise TIME foreign correspondent who broadly expanded the reach and scope of TIME's international editions; after undergoing treatment for lymphoma; in Richmond, Va. German by birth, Prager was schooled in America and got his journalistic start in Asia. He joined TIME in 1965, and was a correspondent in Hong Kong, Vietnam, Beirut and Madrid, among other locales. Following his return to New York, he eventually became managing editor of TIME International...