Word: scoping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outside of Harvard may be on alternative; this action would deprive Harvard of the legitimacy gained by its sponsorship of public service. Such an action might also make public service less effective, and might hurt the intended recipients of services. In addition, the variety of volunteer services and the scope of such activities would likely increase...
...Kessler usually does. The FDA's scope is extraordinary, ranging over $1 trillion worth of products, from breast implants to orange juice. In one 10-day period last month the agency approved a new aids drug, issued new rules on seafood safety, approved the first treatment for Lou Gehrig's disease and banned nighttime laser shows in Las Vegas...
...government would have taken if existing spending patterns had gone unchanged. The Republican proposal does promise a balanced budget in 2002, a signal accomplishment. Most important, the argument is settled about whether balance is desirable. Bill Clinton has signed on. But fiscal sanity is not the goal. Reducing the scope of the government is. So there is much more to do. How much, exactly? Newt Gingrich doesn't say. But his chief lieutenant, majority leader Dick Armey of Texas, says the proper goal is to cut the federal share of GDP in half, to 11% from its current share...
...IMPORTANCE THE PRESS HAS GIVEN TO Gingrich is, as of this moment, out of proportion to his actual accomplishment. It may prove to be justified, but right now it is vastly inflated. It's so inflated that if you look at Gingrich in the overall scope of American history or the American Congress, it bears little relationship to historical reality. He may want to be President, but what he is right now is a legislator. And the only measure of legislative leadership is legislation, the laws you get passed. Right now, Gingrich's sum total of realized accomplishment is minuscule...
...request by the counsel to expand the probe, the Democrats can be counted on to recall the words of a celebrated House firebrand. To place limits on the work of the special counsel, he declared, would be seen as "an attempt by the ethics committee to control the scope and direction of the investigation.'' Who said that? Gingrich did, seven years ago, when he was pushing to widen the investigation of Jim Wright...