Word: spectrum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only part of TIME operations that can lay claim to omniscience is the news desk. Sitting by banks of computer terminals, telephones and clocks adjusted to a spectrum of time zones, nine news-desk editors, managers and assistants keep track of our worldwide corps of 88 correspondents, ensuring that editors' questions to them, and their reports from the field, reach the right destinations...
WHAT is certain is that the "middle class"--the broad spectrum of Americans for whom culture, outlook and life-opportunities are similar--is being bifurcated. The "two-tiered society" does not just describe two income brackets, but two ways of life and two ways of looking at life in America. ever-present evidence of homelessness...
...began feeling its politics again and abstained from the voting. Kohl also seized the high ground from the far-right Republican Party, which has issued absurd calls for complete German reunification to 1937's borders, which now include parts of Poland. Kohl reassured Germans across much of the political spectrum as well as Germany watchers around the world by emphasizing the term confederation. With its explicit echoes of the Zollverein, the customs union of German states that existed during the 19th century before Bismarck's unification of the nation, the word summoned an image of a large but unthreatening German...
Vasil Mohorita, a member of the ruling Politburo, said a government "representing all parts" of the political spectrum will be named Sunday. He did not elaborate...
...national-affiliation policy is a threat to political and human rights groups all over the spectrum. If it were enforced as strictly as the staff proposes, the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard, Amnesty International, New Jewish Agenda, the Harvard Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Democratic Club and the Republican Club would all be forced off-campus. How that would help Harvard students is truly baffling...