Word: scoping
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...ITCA team qualifier has a little more significance than the Harvard Invitational," Graham said. "We have a chance to advance to the National Indoors in Wisconsin, and that is certainly within our scope. The tournament should help our kids develop into nationally competitive players...
Saddam Hussein is a lucky man. When the United Nations gave the Iraqi leader until July 25 to reveal once and for all the scope of his country's weapons program, George Bush backed up the deadline with the threat of a military strike. But that was before Secretary of State James Baker's shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East began to show promise. When the deadline passed last week, Washington charged that Baghdad had still not come clean. But the military threat against Saddam is on hold -- at least for the moment...
More and more shoppers have awakened to the scope of the deception and reacted with disgust and contempt for product labels. Fully 40% of consumers claim they are highly skeptical of what they read on the packages in their grocery carts. And medical experts see a distinct danger in the muddled messages. "For someone with chronic heart disease, hypertension or diabetes, the current manufacturers' labels can be downright dangerous," says Gail Levey, a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association. People with high blood pressure, for example, should be wary of falling for Stouffer's Lean Cuisine, which proudly boasts "Never...
...child's exercise is an example of what is known as the portfolio approach to testing, which derives its name from the collection of work assembled by artists and architects to show off the true scope of their talent. In addition to taking formal exams, a portfolio student selects his or her best work during an entire year of study, and at term's end explains the choices. The portfolio approach places emphasis on overall accomplishment rather than ability to conquer a battery of tests. And students learn the virtues of improvement as they revise and embellish drafts of their...
...getting away with bomb-building programs outside the treaty. All nations party to the pact, as 142 now are, must agree with the IAEA on terms for inspection of all their nuclear facilities. But North Korea, which signed the treaty in 1985, has never concluded a full-scope inspection pact, and South Korean President Roh Tae Woo charged last week that Pyongyang has tested nuclear detonators. South Africa, widely believed to have the Bomb, announced last week its intention to sign the treaty and will now have to open its facilities to inspection. Countries that do not sign the treaty...