Word: scopes
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That policy change drew student ire in the form of a large rally and outspoken criticism. It also sparked protest from Faculty members who said they did not understand the consequences or scope of the rule they were passing...
...issue of Harvard’s culture and social climate that spurred the most discussion from the speakers, who went beyond the scope of the report to express concern about alcohol, social space and personal relations between students...
...with so much enthusiasm everywhere we went that one of our main challenges was limiting the scope,” Lithgow says...
Reefer Madness (Houghton Mifflin; 310 pages) is the title of Schlosser's new book, and in it he widens his scope from a single industry to take on the entirety of what he calls America's "underground economy"--that vast, shadowy realm of financial activity that goes unrecorded because it's either illegal or unsavory or both. Like the fast-food business, the underground economy has ballooned over the past 30 years, to about $1 trillion, and Schlosser aims to find out why. He's hunting big conceptual game here, nothing less than America's troubled, hypocritical soul...
...least two debates this coming week over controversial nominees to the lower courts will preview what's to come. A full Senate vote on the nomination of Jeffrey Sutton - whose states' rights advocacy has helped limit the scope of disability, age and race discrimination statutes - to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals is expected Tuesday. Then Thursday, the Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on Carolyn Kuhl, whom George Bush wants to seat on the appellate court in California. As a Reagan administration lawyer, Kuhl argued hard for tax-exempt status for the racially discriminatory Bob Jones University...