Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...product is stunning, not in its scope but in its intensity. A rigorous depiction of Floyd and his six entertaining, engaging friends underplays the "blueness" of the blues. Their voices become a paean to the humor, song and spiritualism of everyday life's true survivors...
...report's first recommendation is to enhance both the scope and charge of the current Committee on Patents and Copyrights...
Leaders of the College's liberal community are organizing a movement they hope will radically change the scope and mission of the Undergraduate Council, politicizing the student government and refocusing it as a center of student activism...
Unfortunately, the agreement made no mention of a cease-fire, and as the Bosnian Serbs failed to withdraw their heavy weapons from around Sarajevo, nato escalated its military campaign, doubling its target list and extending the scope of the air war across Bosnia. As poor weather frustrated bombing efforts and Serb resistance appeared to be holding firm, a nato official admitted, "It might take a longer campaign to inflict significant damage...This may be a question of lasting attrition, grinding them down rather than overwhelming them with a series of spectacular strikes in a couple of days...
Cantwell's direct voice recreates a life, and a society which is quite easily visualized. Her difficulties are well worth recounting as her strong desires and emotions elevate her story beyond the scope of her own life, and make her experiences a reality to be learned from by her readers...