Word: scoping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reality, as always, is different from, and harder than, what military planners imagined. Washington is already enlarging the political scope of the U.S. mission. Before the first troops landed, Robert Oakley, the U.S. special envoy, held a series of meetings in Mogadishu that resulted in reports that he had no intention of entering into negotiations with Somalia's warlords, but would simply inform them of U.S. military aims and lay down a deadline to withdraw their gunmen. By Friday, Oakley had brokered a temporary reconciliation between the country's two most powerful clan leaders, General Mohammed Farrah Aidid...
Cleary and Toland's close-to-the-vest handling of the budget is indicative of how they manage a department that has a small staff but enormous scope. Harvard has more student-athletes than any Division I school in the country...
Both deans said that such meetings are wellwithin the scope of the Overseer's powers as theUniversity's oldest governing authority...
Ironically enough, many of the Core courses that are supposed to provide students with a broader intellectual outlook are much more narrow in their scope than departmental introductory courses...
Every few years, someone tries to launch a national ensemble to perform the classics, an American equivalent to London's Royal National troupe or Paris' Comedie-Francaise. But the effort has always foundered, often over questions of how to finance it or because the very scope of the ambition stirred audience expectations that no start-up group is likely to meet...