Word: scopes
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Some Silicon Valley technology bloggers have criticized the fund for the narrowness of its scope, comparing it to an unsuccessful Java-targeted fund from the late 1990s. The focus on a specific technology could increase the fund’s risk to investors, its critics have suggested...
...been droning on for years, now grown "so complicated that no man alive knows what it means." An upper-class lady hiding a dark secret. Orphaned children, greedy adults, blackmailing lawyers, a detective story, a reunion and several untimely deaths (one of them by spontaneous combustion). The sheer scope of Charles Dickens' great novel Bleak House presents a daunting task for any adapter. But the BBC version that begins next week on PBS' Masterpiece Theatre cuts brilliantly through the mists to create what may well be TV's dramatic event of the year...
...full scope of the reforms can best be glimpsed in Sichuan's cities, especially in Chongqing and in Chengdu, the province's capital. Under a huge white statue of Mao, disparagingly called the "Old Man" by many Chinese, downtown Chengdu is alive with hundreds of peddlers hawking fruit, vegetables, meat, fabrics, pots, wicker furniture, even Brooke Shields calendars. The bargaining would shame an Arab bazaar. "What do you mean selling them at this price?" a woman asks a man hawking tangerines. "They're full of defects." The vendor yells back, "Defects? What do you mean defects...
...ICBM by testing and deploying the SS-25 mobile missile. The Soviets argue that the radar station will be used for tracking satellites, not enemy missiles, and that the SS-25 is merely a modernized version of the old SS-12. Pentagon hardliners insist that the scope of Soviet cheating is greater than most other experts con tend; on-site inspection may be the only way finally to resolve the debate...
TIME Music Writer and Critic Michael Walsh is constantly reminded that the scope of his job is "at least national, and often international." Indeed, the peripatetic Walsh, accompanied by New York Correspondent Dean Brelis, traveled to Moscow two weeks ago to write this week's cover story on Pianist and Returned Russian Exile Vladimir Horowitz. Since joining the magazine in 1981, Walsh has logged some 50,000 miles a year covering musical events and personalities. In the past 14 months he has visited San Francisco, Japan, London, Paris, Austria, West Germany--and even East Germany, for the opening of Dresden...