Word: encompassing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cases encompass a very large patch. Klayman operates like a smaller-scale but even more freewheeling independent counsel, using civil lawsuits to go after Clinton's circle to its most outlying ripples. (He first got noticed in 1996 after he took a deposition from John Huang, the fund raiser embroiled in the Clinton money scandals.) Over the past year, his reach has grown considerably, in part because Judicial Watch received $550,000 in 1997 from Richard Mellon Scaife's Carthage Foundation (see chart). Scaife is the Clinton-hounding Pittsburgh billionaire who subsidizes Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., the school where...
...current effort leaves much to be desired. In our opinion, randomization, especially in the absence of alternative mechanisms to provide for the social well-being of underrepresented minorities, is not the right answer. We urge the University to open the dialogue about forming healthy and vibrant communities to encompass new ideas. To this end we welcome the opportunity to meet with students and University administrators to formulate a policy that benefits the entire Harvard community...
...West's speech, I do not think that statement accurately reflects West's "concerns," but in fact contradicts West's argument. West emphasized the need to create a "public space" in which political and social discourse can take place. And that "public space," created by the "prophetic minority," should encompass all people. West recognized all people as "irreproducable, irreducible individuals," none being "least-skilled" or even less-skilled...
...compulsory church service doesn't begin to fully encompass all of the feelings and emotions that this day brings for some people," Smith said...
...Armed with this knowledge, President Clinton stepped up his attack on Iraq?s refusal to grant inspectors access to 68 palaces, presidential compounds and VIP residences. "Some of them actually encompass more land than Washington, D.C., does," Clinton said at the Asia-Pacific summit in Vancouver...