Word: wider
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...become a TV star. It's a typical theme for a movie: carpe diem, no matter who you kill or how many lives you ruin. But set the plot during the turbulent time period of the '60s Civil Rights Movement, and the scope of the film becomes much wider and far more serious than its trailer suggests...
...income families out of Cambridge. The result is that the bilingual program's enrollment is significantly lower than it once was. In the 1970s, the number of students enrolled was around 300; today that number hovers around 180. On top of the reduced enrollment, the teachers face a wider variety of nationalities in the classroom. When the program first began, the student were mostly Greek, Portugese, Hispanic or Haitian. Today, there are greater instances of "low-incidence languages," with students from Pakistan, India, Africa, China and Vietnam. Consequently, they cannot hold classes in native languages because there...
...moving more toward being a gender issues [program]," she says, explaining that many program participants would like to see the counseling embrace a wider range of issues...
Although the Pudding is not a final club, the change may have some even wider reaching implications for Harvard, especially in terms of women's options...
...Clinton campaign--and what may have secured his victory--was the "town meeting," a chance for real people to ask their screened, but still hard-hitting questions, about everything from the environment to the candidate's underwear. The town meeting made politics interesting again for a wider swath of America, and actually got some discussion of the issues in the process...