Word: scoping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 207 pages; $19). Another figures that "character is nothing but warts." Judging from these 23 fictions, both statements are correct. Padgett Powell's two previous books, both novels (Edisto, A Woman Named Drown), exhibited a unique gift for regional American comedy. This sparkling collection reduces his scope without limiting his style. Dr. Ordinary is anything but: "He found God with no difficulty, but locating his belief another matter." Miss Resignation "liked football and was absolutely certain that she could have been an excellent off-tackle, slant-type runner . . . 44 was her number. Forty-four...
Finally, Harvard's oversight committees lack the scope they need to ensure that the University plays fairly on Wall Street...
...next month, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations arrived at its guinea pig site, Stanford University, and the government discovered significantly, costly improprieties. As their interest piqued, investigators then broadened the scope to Harvard Medical School and MIT. And now, after nine months, what began as a low-key fact-finding mission has snowballed into a massive federal inquiry that has drawn the interest of at least seven independent federal agenices and has engulfed nearly 300 colleges and universities...
...news reporting or even news analysis. They are lamps that illuminate the complexity of issues, spears that jab relentlessly for chinks in a politician's armor, magnifying glasses that invite public inspection of government corruption or incompetence. Cartoonists thrive on controversy, hoping to add reason to the irrational and scope to the sensational...
...penetration probably began with allegations that his best friend in Britain's MI6 intelligence service, Kim Philby, was a KGB mole. Philby removed all doubt when he defected to the Soviets in 1963. "After the Philby case," says an Angleton friend, "Jim was never the same." But the full scope of Angleton's obsessive mole hunt was not apparent until his dismissal. Agents sent to clear out his secret vault at the CIA's Langley, Va., headquarters discovered hundreds of files from his Ahab-like search for Soviet counteragents within the ranks of the CIA. Investigators were baffled to find...