Word: encompasses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compromise resolution attempts to encompass both concerns, committee members said...
Rather than focusing attention on the ACSR, saving protests for the spring to respond to ACSR votes, protest should be a year-long effort by the divestiture movement. Students should lobby the University's most influential body-the alumni. The focus of the divestiture movement must spread to encompass students and faculty at the graduate schools. Radcliffe students should protest that school's investment policy in companies that do business in South Africa, in hope that Radcliffe can set an example for Harvard...
...range of her creations is already greater than her physical presence can encompass. She speaks fondly and volubly of her parents' inspiration. Her mother, who trained to be a concert pianist, insisted on lessons in several instruments, musical theory, plus extras like baton twirling (there is a fine baton riff in The Bix Pieces). Her father owned drive-in movie theaters around Los Angeles, which provided Tharp with an open-air classroom in popular culture. But she also remembers the satisfaction of watching him building and repairing his property, "brick and mortar, step by step." That is how Twyla...
...years I have been convinced that the future must encompass a United States of Africa. I still believe that...
...more than a decade. As nomadic herdsmen wander thousands of miles in search of food and water, some 14 million acres of potentially productive grasslands are destroyed each year by their livestock. At least 20% of the continent is desert; experts believe that the process of "desertification" could encompass 45% of Africa in 50 years if current patterns of land use are allowed to continue. Famine and pestilence plague hundreds of thousands of Africans. Livestock diseases like rinderpest, a fatal viral infection known as "the cattle plague," and human maladies like malaria, cholera and bilharziasis, a water-borne urinary-tract...