Word: extend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...democracy. Local affairs are run by "resistance councils." Last February voters were permitted to cast ballots for added seats to the National Resistance Council, Uganda's renamed parliament. But Museveni's National Resistance Movement is the only legal political organization, and the unelected President last week had the N.R.C. extend his term of office five years...
...Evening With Champions is the longestcontinuous event the Jimmy Fund has. It is [our]most visible event. It is nationwide: PBS isairing it. This helps extend the Jimmy Fund beyondthe New England boundary," said Mark T. Cummings,the Jimmy Fund's director of operations...
...mysteries of Nimrud were far from solved. Last year, exploring an inner room of the palace, a team of laborers stumbled across a tomb that contained a small collection of necklaces, earrings and gilded pins. In February, Muzahim was granted permission to extend the explorations. Last April, digging near the spot where Christie plotted her thriller, he found what looked like a piece of pavement. When he and his workers cleared off the dirt, they uncovered a small ceramic pipe resembling an air vent. The "pavement" turned out to be the arched roof of a small rectangular tomb. Inside...
Administrators at most of the schools complained that the investigation's scope was too broad, and asked the Justice Department to either pare down its requests or extend the deadlines for compiling the records. The department did a little bit of both, but it was still too much for the in-house legal staffs at most of the schools...
...NCAA decision to extend Melrose's hockey career is a major boon for Harvard, which was expecting to start the season short on experience in the defensive...