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...decided transformation. For most of U.S. history, it clearly meant speech-the unorthodox opinion, the challenging idea. Then, during the 1960s, civil rights protesters took to the streets to fight segregation, and the word became associated with demonstrations as much as with speech. As protests have continued to broaden and increase, dissent has come to be used to describe and defend a wide variety of physical acts, including violence toward property and even toward people...
...influencing a wide range of products in a variety of ways. Housewives are becoming highly selective in their purchases. The main question they ask, says Gene Case, president of Manhattan's Case & Krone, is "What can I stop buying?" Case's agency, for instance, is trying to broaden the appeal of Angostura Bitters beyond that of a cocktail flavoring and increase its use as a seasoner for low-cost meals. The campaign offers suggestions on "how to repair TV dinners" and "how to make 89? chuck taste like $1.29 sirloin...
...school has had windows out of it ever since I went to it fifteen years ago. When they sent the white kids to it a couple of weeks ago, they approved funds to repair windows, broaden out the streets, put in street lights, slow signs, emergency care, plowed up the football field...
...sought an explanation from Secretary of State William Rogers-and then, without waiting for his promised testimony this week, ordered two staff members to go to Cambodia to investigate any U.S. involvement. Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie complained that linking troop withdrawals to events in Cambodia and Laos was to "broaden our commitment" dangerously...
...violating a school-board dress code in Williams Bay, Wis., Doyle ordered him back to class without benefit of scissors. On the assumption that a school board would not make the same demands of an adult night student with long hair, Doyle suggested that "it is time to broaden the constitutional community by including within its protections younger people whose claim to dignity matches that of their elders...