Word: scoping
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Stone began with a comparison of the changes in both size and scope in terms of students, budget, and staff which have occurred since...
Forget intelligent discussion on gun rights for individual citizens. Forget inquiries into the government's botching of Waco. Forget any rhetoric at all on ways to reduce the scope of government in our lives. For now and the foreseeable future, anyone (of any race, creed, gender or religion) who even brings up these topics will be accused of abetting baby killers. So we can chalk up another victory for the Oklahoma City bombers. In addition to being vicious terrorists and murderers of innocent children, they are mind-bendingly stupid individuals...
Fingers of blame are being pointed at conservative Americans. I am a conservative, and I am frightened by the likes of Timothy McVeigh and the militias that teeter on the edge of terrorism. These people are far beyond the scope of my beliefs. Paranoid anarchists have very little, if anything, in common with mainstream Americans of a conservative stripe. Tougher law enforcement is a hallmark issue with most conservatives and Republicans, and we favor greater empowerment of federal authorities to nail these fiends before they have a chance to strike again...
...romantic in question, and the narrator of this novel, is an American photographer named Richard. In the course of the few years covered in the novel's scope, starting in 1987, he makes five visits to Cuba, and in each one he becomes progressively more embroiled in the mysteries and particular frustrations of the place, not least because he has fallen in love with a Cuban girl called Lourdes...
Stille's first book, Benevolence and Betrayal, was a gently empathetic account of Italian Jewry under Fascist rule, focused on the misfortunes of five families. Excellent Cadavers has a broader, bloodier scope, and at times readers may find themselves lost in a thicket of unfamiliar names. Stille clearly struggled to humanize his two heroes, whom he never met, and the book's last section, which describes the maxi-trial's political aftermath, seems rushed and scrappy. Excellent Cadavers, nonetheless, is a strong tale of a drama in progress: the Mafia may have been badly bruised...