Word: encompassing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, in the past 40 years every sitting President who has run for re-election has won. These 40 years are the only proper ones for making presidential comparisons because they encompass the modern presidency-that cataclysmic expansion of federal services and presidential powers that began with Franklin Roosevelt. So simple and quiet was the White House even in Herbert Hoover's time that Hoover, the last of the old era, continued the custom of shaking hands with tourists for an hour every day. He had another distinction: he was the last sitting President to be defeated...
What the NWPC is grappling with are the problems of a group that seeks to encompass as wide a popular base as possible. Even without men, the convention fairly bristled with muted friction between whites and blacks, have and have nots. Predictably, whites have dominated the convention and that was the source of the problem...
...articulate any special view or approach." Masterson notes that "Harvard alumni are active in all the major businesses, professions and educational institutions in Philadelphia," and that "a fair number of people are at the top of those institutions." But he is quick to add. "Their political and social philosophies encompass a wide range of views with no identifiable single force. In short I doubt there is any controversial issue in present day society which the majority would agree upon," he says...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences is at the front line in Harvard's University wide battle against inflation and recession. It is Harvard's largest and most visible division and it is diversified enough to encompass all the financial does that the affecting universities actions America...
...said the fund drive and the expansion of the Kennedy School to encompass the goals he outlined in his report is now "in process" and will take "considerable mutual cooperation and collaboration" among Harvard's graduate schools over the next several years...