Word: scoping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...betray my Jeffersonian political leanings, but I suspect that many people feel strongly that the danger of an entrenched and all-powerful judiciary lies in its tendency toward indifference and corruption. The reasons why power inspires indifference and fatuousness is a matter for political scientists and is beyond the scope of this article. Nonetheless, one should note that the legal system is often criticized for being too far removed from basic ideas of fairness and simple justice. If juries were eliminated the system would only become more arcane and technical...
Simmelkjaer said it was "very important thatthe administration get an idea of the scope anddepth of student concern...
Foreign policy is on no one's radar scope yet, except Richard Lugar's. Usually when matters abroad are discussed, Lugar's expertise commands bipartisan respect. But now that he's after the big prize, even Lugar has veered offtrack. When Saddam Hussein recently jailed two Americans for straying into Iraq-an action requiring deft diplomacy-Lugar waxed on about sending the Marines to rescue them...
...film), he explains that it isn't that he doesn't respect Christo. Rather, he is "trying to becomes part of the history of his umbrellas." This type of language punctuates the otherwise campy (and fun) side of Gaxiola's personality with the happy result of widening the intellectual scope of the documentary...
...just providing a resource. Some might say that just claiming the existence of a gay and lesbian history is a political statement, but Miller's book proves that this is an invalid point. Out of the Past is an accessible, entertaining and thorough reference to a subject whose scope we are just now discovering...