Word: encompassing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, this snag can be overcome by limiting oneself to those segments of each class that are directly linked to the processes of economic production, i.e., to those groups whose economic interests completely encompass the inner-most, primary level of the working of the American economy. Thus the crucial sub-classes to focus on are the Rich--all senior business executives, the Technostructure-Rich--junior business executives, engineers, technicians and scientists in the big corporations, and the Workers--all the people who work in factories (that's what they still are no matter how civilized the conditions) producing consumer goods...
...example, established the principle of collegiality-meaning that bishops share ruling power over the church with the Pope. Many theologians argue that Paul's unilateral decision on birth control makes a mockery of this principle. And they further argue that collegiality ought to be extended downward to encompass the entire church...
Waging a sort of conference-table warfare, the Communist diplomats sought to exacerbate the tensions between the U.S. and Saigon. Brushing aside the our-side-your-side formula, Hanoi's chief negotiator, Xuan Thuy, stressed in Paris that the new talks will encompass "four delegations-independent delegations with the right to speak." Thuy's public elevation of the N.L.F. to an independent status would, of course, make it even harder for President Thieu to send representatives to Paris. At the same time, Thuy twitted the U.S. for South Viet Nam's unwillingness to join the conference...
...therefore called upon not to insist adamantly on old practices, but to stretch our understanding of liberal education so that it may encompass the new vital phenomena," he said...
DOES academic freedom encompass public remarks by a university representative that inflame racial and religious passions? To New York University President James M. Hester, the answer seems to be no. Last week he fired a Negro militant who had claimed that "antiblack Jews" dominated the New York City public schools, and charged that Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey were "racist bastards...