Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Earlier this year, Rudenstine expressed grave concerns about the scope of the commission's task, but did not raise these issues in his testimony. Congress allotted the commission only 120 days to report--of which less than a month remains...
Officials cited some statistics to indicate the scope of the problem the commission is tackling: the cost of a college education has increased 235 percent since 1980 while the median family income and consumer price index have grown only 82 percent and 70 percent respectively...
...That is, he's looking to get rich and sleep with as many women as possible on the way up. Ernst spends his days tending to patients whose state of health runs the gamut from vegetative to permanently comatose-a foreshadowing of the film's extremely limited scope. His one patient who is actually conscious is a terminally ill dialysis case (played with stunning grace by Jeffery Wright) praying for death...
Even before the visit was confirmed, a rush of media requests indicated that this event would be beyond the scope of normal logistical arrangements. Though 300 media requests have been received by the News Office, only 80 reporters and 20 photographers will be allowed in Sanders Theatre...
Champagne said that the Promise Keepers have extensive resources that permitted them to organize and pay for an event of that scope...