Word: scoping
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...only to be batted down as irrelevant because they deal with the humanities or they are neglected because there isn’t enough time to address every issue. Moral dilemmas, social implications of scientific research and even the aesthetics of green bunnies are all dismissed as beyond the scope of the material of the course. In some respects, the professor who brought up Alba is way ahead of his colleagues, most of whom would never have even raised the question. But even open-minded professors raise these questions for no more than 15 seconds of airtime, such that they...
...Walton’s fortune starts to make a little more sense, then, as you begin to understand the scope of Wal-Mart’s achievement. It manages its suppliers and its customers better than any company in America, and it knows more about its products and its prices too, allowing it to undersell all its competitors. It invests in technology but only buys the software and hardware that will improve productivity, preferring to let other companies jump on faddish technology bandwagons. Case in point: Wal-Mart waited longer than just about every retailer in the country to launch...
...Gusmorino says that expanding the scope of UC Books in this way will likely involve technology that has not yet been developed...
...increasing the risk of military mistakes, impeding the hunt for al-Qaeda leaders and giving Omar, bin Laden and their henchmen time to slip away. "The U.S. is totally dependent on locals, who have their own agenda," says an expert in the region. A senior intelligence official disputes the scope of the problem, telling TIME that "this institution has never produced better human intelligence than it does today--but that doesn't mean that we don't need to do more...
...heats up, and good old-fashioned populism is back in style. "There hasn't been this degree of populist rhetoric since 1989," says Jonathan Stein, an independent political analyst based in Prague. "Politicians are trying to show they are capable of defending national identity, but E.U. integration limits the scope for this to symbolic battles...