Word: scopes
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...with a budget under $100 million. The effects of this struggle are evident as the film falters slightly in providing viewers with a deeper insight into the historical events of the Alamo. A larger budget and more violence could have helped better convey the epic scope of these battles...
...kidnapping of a beautiful princess is the centerpiece, but that is just the lens through which he address some of Senegal’s most pressing issues: Muslim expansion, Christianity and the slave trade. The title comes from the name for the common lower class, and the sweeping scope of this study envelops their desperate desire for the possibility of keeping their religious and cultural customs in the face of the 19th century’s far ranging changes. By the end of this intriguing film, the audience has been taken on a journey through philosophy, history...
...cope. Rice had been a distinguished scholar of the Soviet Union, which by 2001 did not exist. During the presidential campaign, she freely admitted to the New York Times that "I've been pressed to understand parts of the world that have not really been part of my scope. I'm really a Europeanist." Even Clinton officials not unsympathetic to Rice and her colleagues saw trouble brewing at the time of the transition. "The biggest thing they have to work on is adjusting their perception of the world to realities," said the official who had praised Rice's cordiality. "They...
...line: Be nice to your accountants--or else. Outside auditors answer to an audit committee made up of at least two independent board members; previously they might have dealt only with a chief financial officer, and "it would not have been unusual for CFOs ... to try to limit the scope of an audit," says Scott Green, head of compliance for the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges. Since the law bars accounting firms from selling certain consulting services to audit clients, including such lucrative ones as information-systems design, auditors face less pressure from their partners to pass cooked books...
Watchdog groups, on the other hand, say some of the changes imposed by Sox are toothless. When Congress was drafting the law, "the accounting firms worked hard to minimize its scope," says Barbara Roper of the Consumer Federation of America. Unlike the mutual-fund and securities industries, she says, "the accounting profession never really acknowledged that there was a serious problem with the way it did business...