Word: scoping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...golden opportunity for criminals," says James Cavuoto, editor of Micro Publishing Report, based in Torrance, Calif., and author of a new study that describes the scope of the problem and offers tips for detection. According to Cavuoto, desktop forgers can doctor a wide range of documents: passports, birth certificates, immigration cards, stock certificates, credit- card receipts, purchase orders, drug prescriptions and letters of reference. Academic transcripts are particularly susceptible because college students have easy access to the necessary equipment...
Though Bob Rafelson's film has epic scope, its attitudes are anything but those of the conventional epic. Yet somehow it conveys, as few movies ever have, the miserable realities that underlay the 19th century's heroic age of exploration. Since it bravely takes up a subject remote from the interests of most of the modern audience, the film itself has about it the air of a grand, ferocious folly. Precisely because it is a high-risk venture in a low-risk movie climate, it deserves one's startled gratitude...
Poirier says the real reason Republicans have been reluctant to support Soto is that the challenger is "very narrow in his scope...
...nonracial South Africa. He would get overwhelming support. He has already got over 75% of the whites in this country. Therefore, if he emancipates himself from thinking only of Afrikaners and thinks of whites, he will be assured of 75% of white voters. But if he expands the scope of this initiative, he will get the overwhelming support of blacks...
...World Health Organization dispatched a public health team to Rumania to determine the scope of the epidemic. If infection is limited mainly to the children, a large supply of sterile needles and blood-testing kits could halt the spread almost immediately, said Dr. Jonathan Mann, head of WHO's Global Program on AIDS. But Mann is concerned that the new mobility of Eastern Europe's populations could lead to faster dissemination of the virus. Citing reports of prostitution in Rumania and heroin use in Poland, Mann called Eastern Europe "the new frontier for the AIDS epidemic...