Word: scoping
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...book, Gomes uses Aristotle’s definition of happiness: “The exercise of vital powers along lines of excellence in a life affording them scope...
WHRB’s increased scope of its election night coverage was financed in part by a grant from the Kennedy School of Government’s Institute of Politics (IOP). Stationing a remote studio at the IOP last night, WHRB reporters spoke with panels of IOP guest political analysts about the election results, focusing on the local governor’s race...
...Second Amendment. In footnotes to Supreme Court filings earlier this year, Ashcroft's Solicitor General wrote that "the Second Amendment more broadly protects the rights of individuals...to possess and bear their own firearms." This was a turnabout from the government's long-standing reading of the amendment's scope as being limited to state militias, which has reflected a 1939 Supreme Court decision. As a result, federal prosecutors are being swamped by court motions from defendants who quote Ashcroft in their argument for having federal gun charges against them dismissed. Among them: convicted American Taliban John Walker Lindh...
...memorizing a lot of stuff for the exam, and I wanted to see if there was a different way of doing it.” Many visiting students take the opportunity to look beyond their main area of study. “The reason I came here is to scope out the subjects I can’t take at home,” says Martin, who had few electives at the University of St. Gallen outside of his specialized field in finance but is now taking advantage of Harvard offerings like Sociology 150, “The Social Underpinnings...
Apparently, dedication to any extracurricular outside of athletics lies beyond the scope of Pascavage’s condescending view of her non-athlete peers. Such an attitude dismisses passionate community service volunteers as ruthless resume-builders, master musicians as frauds without true dedication to their craft and so on. It should offend anyone who has ever loved or cared about an activity other than a sport...