Word: extend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...although the whistles were purchased, they have not been distributed. Harvard has also not said if it will improve lighting. However, the Cambridge City Council endorsed the Undergraduate Council's efforts, and while the tangible effects of the council's security efforts remain to be seen, their impact may extend beyond paper goals...
...than one-upmanship by either country. As Aida writes, "The leitmotiv of Japan is not saints and villains engaged in mortal combat, but morally complicated human beings living together, confronting and battling one another from time to time, but ultimately yielding, compromising and coexisting in harmony." If Japan can extend that philosophy to its economic partners, relationships will thrive. In fact, the talk of Japanese internationalism is more than sentimental optimism. Says author Tasker: "They may not create their own momentum for change. They have to be pushed, but when they move, they move." The U.S. ought to give Japan...
...states and local school boards wield most of the policymaking power. But Cavazos seems reluctant to take charge even in the areas that are clearly his. He has yet to promulgate all the regulations for the School Improvements Act, an $8.2 billion bill passed last year that would extend existing programs and create new ones, including dropout prevention. Legislation to promote alternative certification programs, Bush's suggested method for combatting the teacher shortage, has gone nowhere on Capitol Hill, say detractors, because Cavazos has failed to rally public support. "People were critical of Bennett's bully-pulpit role," says Ramon...
...certain that most readers recognized this as a common rhetorical technique, to extend the opponent's argument to the point of ridiculousness. Obviously the above attitude was never mine...
...mechanisms to confront the long-haul task of rolling back the myriad social pathologies among sections of the Black poor such as massive Black-on-Black crime, abysmal education performance and runaway teenage motherhood and fatherhood. So there is no legitimate political and social reason why Harvard College should extend its imprimatur to Black Greeks and no academic reason either...