Word: scoping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think the piece that's missing is that it does not take advantage of the resources of higher education of all," he said. "It's a large omission from a bill that's small in scope...
...have any comment about its scope or its target," Buell said...
...full scope of changes is not reflected simply in organizational tinkering. International conflict is increasingly becoming a struggle for economic and commercial success, for contracts, exports and market share. This means the successful nations are trying to steal high-tech secrets from one another. The Third World and former communist states do not have the money to buy or build themselves quickly to prosperity, so they are seeking a shortcut by stealing technological, scientific and commercial secrets from more advanced countries...
Ginsburg became a judge back in 1980, appointed by President Carter to the U.S. Court of Appeals, after she gained national acclaim as counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union. She had won five landmark cases before the Supreme Court and had taken a novel approach to expanding the scope of the equal-protection clause by suing on behalf of men in some cases. She argued, for instance, that widowers as well as widows were entitled to Social Security survivor payments and challenged an Oklahoma law that allowed women, but not men, to buy alcoholic beverages at 18. She also...
...assault on Clinton's economic plan has imperiled the timing of his other crucial initiative, health-care reform. Because the President had planned to use the Medicare cuts to help pay for health-care reforms later this summer, Clinton's aides are now debating whether to curtail the scope of the reforms or postpone them until next year, or both. "Just look what happened to the BTU tax," said one official. "When you've got something that entails controversy and hard choices, why put it out there and let it sit there and get pummeled?" At a dinner late last...