Word: scoping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...extended scope of alcohol possession laws can be supported by a purely practical argument. Take the analogy of highway speed limits: if the limit is 55 m.p.h., people on average might drive 65. If the limit is 65, people on average would drive at some higher speed...
Proctors and tutors should not be made to act as law enforcement surrogates, but some are all too frank about the small scope of their concerns. Since Harvard's current system of successive warnings allowed some evasion of the old law, a dormitory supervisor would not be any more of an accessory to the crime than before...
...struggle to end all types of oppression is much larger than the scope of Women Appealing for Change [a newly formed undergraduate group asking clubs to admit women]. Therefore I am not and would not be satisfied with the clubs' move simply to go co-ed," she said...
Such deals, though substantial, barely hint at the ultimate scope of Murdoch's latest thrust: to cover the earth with his own digital superhighway. To increase his market penetration, the media baron is developing a digital compression system to enable TV satellites to beam down 180 channels, thereby allowing most of the world to watch everything from news and sports to such Fox shows as The Simpsons and Beverly Hills 90210. As the capstone of these Napoleonic visions, Murdoch and British Telecommunications, which operates Britain's largest phone system, are developing interactive links that will let viewers call up movies...
...Naval Air Station at Point Mugu, California, to brief Secretary of State Warren Christopher. He was amazed and swiftly telephoned the President, who expressed immediate support. Washington had been aware since the outset that secret talks were taking place, but had little idea of the pace and scope. "We gave them some inkling, but that's all," said a senior Israeli diplomat. The U.S. knew about four secret channels that the Israelis were operating with the P.L.O. and believed Israeli diplomats who said, in the words of a senior U.S. official, that nothing "had particularly jelled." What the Clinton Administration...