Word: encompassing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Post for $825,000, and together they set about curing its ills; while he and his associates strengthened circulation, advertising and news coverage, she crusaded for social causes (education, housing) through exposes and lectures. In 1944 she urged the Federal Government to set up a Cabinet-rank department to encompass the areas of health, education and welfare...
Crikey! God, Death, Self-Loathing -it is testimony to Amis' sophistication that he can encompass all these without ceasing to be funny. Mortality in all its implications, in fact, seems to have grown into his prime comic theme. It is a rich one, and a book like The Green Man, while not wholly satisfying in itself, suggests that Amis is going to be able to do remarkable things with it. One English critic has even maintained that Amis is turning into a satirist whose target is the biggest establishment of them all: creation as a whole. Amis...
...hocracies. All this arises because men can no longer absorb all that is relentlessly new, and traditional institutions seem unable to encompass and interpret headlong technological change and its social consequences. Writes Toffler: "It is not simply that we do not know which goals to pursue. The trouble lies deeper. For accelerating change has made obsolete the methods by which we arrive at social goals. The technocrats do not yet understand this, and, reacting to the goals crisis in knee-jerk fashion, they reach for the tried and true methods of the past...
...directed not so much at wiping out the Vietcong refuges along the border as toward ensuring the maintenance of a regime in Cambodia that is friendly to American influence. That regime, of course, would have as a primary goal the elimination of Vietcong forces; but its modus vivendi would encompass a larger range of social and economic tendencies which are compatible with the American presence. As in South Vietnam, U.S. strategy in Cambodia amounts to shoring up a military dictatorship that will permit American interests to flourish there...
...Architecture, the charrette* depends on the constant interplay of ideas. Its most important aspect is the participation of people normally outside the decision-making process. When the concept was imported to York by the city's Community Progress Council, a federally financed antipoverty agency, it was broadened to encompass all areas of community concern...