Word: scoping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gaff Topsails offers few clear judgmentsabout the contradictions that fill its pages andwhich of the many perspectives is correct. It doesnot define the iceberg as a symbol of salvation ordamnation, but rather shows it as both, acathedral of blue ice and a treacherous perilwhose exact scope cannot be fathomed. If only forits descriptive power, the book is a deeplymesmerizing celebration of ambiguity and of theundeniable good in every conception
...from the ?very significant news,? which the Justice Department promptly brushed aside. ?Our investigation is ongoing,? warned DOJ spokeswoman Gina Talamona. Indeed, a senior official in one state attorney general's office told the New York Times that they will file a complaint that will be surprising in its scope: "It's going to be more far-reaching than most people think...
There has been, recently, a murmur of voices against Harvard's First Annual Award Nite--the much anticipated "Parade of Stars." Protesters seem to feel that perhaps the event is petty in its scope, that it creates unnecessary competition, that it attempts to judge qualities of groups where it has no qualifications to do so. I disagree...
...problem with the Parade of Stars is not that it is too broad, or that it creates too much competition; the problem is that it does not include enough events; its scope is in actuality far too limited. In order to make this event more true to the spirit that guides it, we must make some fundamental revisions in the way the awards night is run. We need to introduce new categories into the event. As it is, it limits itself to Sports, Drama, Dance, Community Service and Media/Publications. But there is so much more that happens on our campus...
...there is a Magna Carta for this new world of electronic finance, a single document that spells out the terms and scope of the revolution that will shift money power away from central bankers and into the hands of consumers, it could be found in "Financial Markets in 2020," a speech delivered in 1993 by Charles Sanford Jr., then CEO of Bankers Trust, to a gathering of economics sachems in Jackson Hole...