Word: scoping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Apocryphal as it is, the story is a fair indication of the awe commanded in U.S. and European financial circles by mustachioed Hermann J. Abs, 60, the suave chief executive of West Germany's Deutsche Bank. Unhampered by the kind of legislation that restricts the scope of U.S. banks. West German banks combine the functions exercised in the U.S. by investment banking houses, commercial banks and savings banks, are also free to operate mutual funds and act as brokers. As a result, German bankers wield far more power than their U.S. counterparts. And as boss of his nation...
...huge private joke of a universe which he has thrown rather diffidently onto the Loeb experimental stage and asked an audience to enjoy. That is what strikes one first about Dr. Plantagenet, the sheer nerve of the play. Shaw's Back to Methuselah seems by contrast extraordinarily limited in scope...
...long-term residence in Cambridge has left no uncertain traces in his verse. Freeman quotes without citation from Meleager in Greek, handles language with a scholar's weighty vocabulary that at least once ranges beyond the scope of the unabridged dictionary (favrile) but the almost never settles back upon the easy couch of cliche. His most evident fault lies elsewhere--in the directions of slickness and hyperfacility. Too often, the glitter of his words made me stop and lose sight of the whole poem while I luxuriated in a single phrase or image like "scouring chimneys' ledges' edges,/ scuffling sludge...
...Girl with a Suitcase if it served as a vehicle to show off Miss Cardinale's more obvious charms. But it doesn't even do that; the Cardinale form is well covered at all times, and as for sex, it is, like all other human emotion, simply beyond the scope of this film...
...Pentagon, Van Fleet's blast was embarrassing, since Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has exposed himself to congressional fire by insisting that military officers refrain from sounding off on national and foreign-policy matters beyond their scope. But the Army happily pointed out that Van Fleet had not yet begun his tour of consultant's duty when he made his speech. That meant that Old Soldier Van Fleet spoke as a civilian-and therefore had a civilian's right to say whatever he chose, no matter how ill-advised his words may have been...