Word: extant
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Although floor debate in the legislature will not begin on any education bill for at least a month, the basic elements of the three proposed education reform plans are already extant. Dukakis' bill will be joined by others from the former and present chairmen of the House Education Committee...
...very rare reproduction of the Code of Justinian which served as the basis of "all European law and legal scholarship for several hundred years" is the choice of Edith Henderson, curator of Langdell Library's Treasure Room. Henderson keeps this book, one of the few extant reproductions in the world, secured away, out of public view...
...voting to fund the program. Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed the same bill. President Reagon and the United States Congress have compromised American security and increased the probability of nuclear war by proposing and approving an expensive, ever complex, vulnerable weapon while overlooking an extant, cheap, simple and potent...
...personal life has taken in the last year. For the queasy, it should be added that many of the killings (twelve) in To Have and Have Not are perpetrated with much goriness; for the straitlaced, that the book brings to naked print practically all the four-letter words extant, contains scenes in which copulation and masturbation are impressionistically but vividly presented...
...Archimedes, Sappho, Judas Iscariot, Caesar, Charlemagne and others, overplaying his own hand only when he forged a letter in which Pascal took credit for discovering the law of gravity, rather than Newton. Joseph Cosey, the most prolific of American forgers, displayed meticulous attention to detail while adding to the extant records of U.S. history from Aaron Burr through Abraham Lincoln. Britain's William Henry Ireland successfully duplicated Shakespeare, passing off manuscripts of Hamlet and King Lear, until his own addition to the canon, Vortigern and Rowena, proved his undoing...