Word: wide
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Third, a number of developing countries today produce their own steel and their own ships, not to mention their own textiles. This has led to the necessity for a rather wide-ranging restructuring of industrial capacities and professional capabilities in the developed world. This process is not going fast enough...
...laissez-faire system of the ratings possesses absolute logic: the people decide, voting with their channel selectors. What works as diversion will presumably be highest rated and therefore most successful. But there is a fallacy here: a laissez-faire principle of rule by ratings would be admirable if a wide variety of choices existed. Too many network shows are devoted almost entirely to exploring new dimensions of imbecility. That seems an old and boringly elitist criticism of TV, but it acquires fresh force, even urgency, if one sits through a few hours of Supertrain, The Ropers and The $1.98 Beauty...
With politics in the air, the first College-wide undergraduate assembly at Harvard in nine years held elections in early October. Around the same time, a group of students in Lowell House circulated a petition asking for a University Food Services boycott of Nestle Corporation products because of the company's marketing practices in the Third World...
...Crimson originally opposed the Core and maintains that stand. While the General Education program certainly needed revamping, the Core is not the answer. Its rigid and complicated structure adds unnecessary restrictions to the already limited choices students face in pursuing a 'liberal education.' The Gen Ed principle, requiring a wide variety of courses in a loose framework, is desirable, but the Core goes too far, specifying too narrowly what the undergraduate education will be. It is only a poor substitute for good advice and counseling that would direct students toward a balanced education, without coercing them...
Opponents of the legislation, who come from a wide variety of backgrounds armed with a variety of different axes to grind, argue that a new Cabinet level department would simply add more fatty tissue to the federal blob. Some, like Rep. Benjamin S. Rosenthal (D-N.Y.). believe that funding lies at the heart of the system's problem and that "increased appropriations are not dependent upon the creation of a new department." Individuals like Rosenthal and organizations like the United States Catholic Conference--a major lobby for private school interests--argue that the legislation's proponents must prove...