Word: scopes
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Snyder, who originally came to Harvard as a professor of microbiology, worked to add professors to the HSPH faculty and to widen the scope of the school’s curriculum into emerging fields like demography and human ecology...
...Reports from the first two days of the closed-door meetings (sessions will open to the public later this month) indicate lawmakers are not shying away from homework - they plan to investigate CIA and FBI roles as far back as 1986. Some also appear slightly overwhelmed by the scope of what they've taken on. "There's a lot more information here than we thought," Goss told the Associated Press Monday...
...resources in order to pursue common goals, and it makes little sense to force students to take a bus to get from one class to another. In addition, concentrating graduate school campuses in one area would foster community among graduate students, improving both their quality of life and the scope of their scholarship...
...Providence and Boston, plaintiffs' research has yielded some detail on the scope of church enterprises. But no matter how opulent their headquarters or how many seaside retreats their subsidiaries operate, the archdioceses and dioceses generally plead poverty--and tend to get away with it. Los Angeles attorney Katherine Freberg recalls trying in vain to get around California laws preventing access to church documents in a sex-abuse case last year. By releasing so little financial information, the Los Angeles archdiocese and Orange County diocese, reputed to be among the wealthiest in the country, were able to negotiate a relatively small...
...spectacularly beguiling baloney, breathtaking in scope. An estimated 90,000 individuals in Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia became G.O. "members," investing in the firm's schemes based on promises they could double or triple their savings. Until his operation unraveled earlier this year, Ogami, 39, had collected a total of $400 million, according to former G.O. Group executives, which he used to finance a lavish lifestyle, expand overseas and buy the offshore bank in the Philippines. He even financed his own action movie, Blades of the Sun, featuring himself in the starring role playing opposite a Filipina starlet...