Word: extended
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...from that of America, said Monroe, and the U.S. is devoted to the defense of its own system. "We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety . . . It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace and happiness; nor can anyone believe that our southern brethren, if left...
...that the Monroe Doctrine, the product of a simpler time, applies only to old-fashioned aggression. But in his wisdom, Monroe spoke for generations unborn and perils unenvisioned. What he declared to be dangerous to the U.S.'s peace and safety was "any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere . . . interposition in any form." That unmistakably applies to Cuba...
...foreign trade measure is perhaps the best and boldest of all the programs sent to Capitol Hill this year. Fashioned to meet the challenge and the opportunity posed to the U.S. by Europe's Common Market, it would extend the President's powers to negotiate bilateral tariff reductions, permit him to slash all existing tariffs by as much as 50%. More important, it would authorize the President to eliminate altogether tariffs on goods produced primarily...
British Digger Don Brothwell, he and his colleagues go even farther than that-but they guess even less. From aviation to atomic physics, from electronics to chemistry, a whole host of sciences now help archaeologists to extend their observations with astonishing accuracy...
...Archaeology," says Brothwell, "is no longer pure excavation. It has matured into a discipline demanding the cooperation of a variety of scientific fields." In their quest to extend history, archaeologists are using proton magnetometers to search for the ancient Greek city of Sybaris. They have used aerial photography to locate Etruscan tombs and to find a lost Andean road that was once part of a pre-Inca civilization. By analyzing the content of bone, they have shown Piltdown man for what he was-a forgery that fooled scientists for 41 years...