Word: broads
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...want to show administrators that there is broad-based support for this issue," said Sophie A. Volpp '85, a third-year graduate student. Volpp said she expects the petition drive to collect even more signatures in the fall...
...reportedly living in Southern California, has said through third parties that he is in the U.S. to vacation and conduct "a broad survey of American society." So far, he has visited the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas. His friend Lu Keng, a Hong Kong journalist, says this "research" will keep Xu in America "for quite some time." Says Lu: "My feeling is that he won't go back to China until Li Peng is no longer in power. He may want to avoid retaliation." Xu's old associates in Beijing may be cursing him, but Lu says the former envoy...
...traced, with rare nicety, to the last Big Bang in world affairs before the current one -- the pivotal autumn of 1945, just after the end of World War II and before the beginning of the cold war. "Our national security can only be assured on a very broad and comprehensive front," said Navy Secretary James Forrestal at a Senate hearing that fall. He added, "I am using the word security here consistently and continuously, rather than defense." Senator Edwin Johnson replied, "I like your words national security...
...board, then a seat as a state representative. He ran unsuccessfully for a number of higher offices, including state and U.S. Senator, before finally winning the governorship in 1982. That victory came at the trough of the Reagan recession. Sununu prevailed by promising to balance the state budget without broad-based new taxes. New Hampshire is one of the few states with no state personal-income or sales...
...diet pill that when swallowed, according to the ads, would break "into thousands of particles, each acting like a tiny magnet." Fat cells would allegedly be attracted to the "magnets" and eliminated through the digestive system. In addition to - going after such obvious frauds, the FTC has initiated a broad investigation of diet-clinic advertising...