Word: broads
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Wisconsin focused on an application by Embraer, a Brazilian aerospace firm that has sold weapons to Iraq, to obtain supercomputer technology from IBM. The Senate passed Kasten's amendment barring supercomputer exports to Brazil and any other country aiding Iraq. The White House opposes the amendment as too broad and considers it a restriction of the President's powers in foreign relations...
...future elections. Republicans, including George Bush, believe that limiting the number of terms a Congressman can serve would boost their efforts to break the other party's stranglehold on the House by forcing popular Democrats to quit long before the voters would force them to retire. But any broad effort to restrict the tenure of lawmakers could have an unintended negative effect: it might deflect public attention -- and rage -- away from what the people's representatives are actually doing in Congress to a debate over whether they should be thrown out on a set schedule regardless of their performance...
...type of knowledge that schools teach is equally important, he said. Sizer criticized the practices of schools that divide learning into distinct subjects rather than taking a broad-based, integrated approach...
...lights in our industry have just gone out. There are going to * be some very tragic times. Within the next four years, 50% of the workers in construction and real estate could be unemployed." Even in California, where the building market has known no direction but up, Kaufman and Broad Home Corp. of Los Angeles reported a 5% drop in third-quarter profits as nervous home buyers delayed housing purchases. "Uncertainty is 90% of the problem," says Chad Dreier, the company's chief financial officer...
...died in 1918 at the age of 30, and ending with Rufino Tamayo, who is still alive at 91. Tamayo's paintings, like The Merry Drinker, 1946, are based as much on Mexican popular art with its bright organic colors as on the inspiration of Picasso; broad humor and even a fierce grotesqueness are never far away. And the main body of his work lies within the scale of easel painting, whereas Rivera's does not. Murals, by their nature, cannot be moved around, and so Rivera's coverage in the show hardly does justice to his enormous talent...