Word: extended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Business. While the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretaries made the sweeping decisions that extended the British realm, the Colonial Office minded the less dramatic chores of the empire. It set up the famed London School of Tropical Medicine, waged successful wars against malaria and the tsetse fly. Under its direction, Britain became the first modern nation to extend developmental aid to backward areas of the world, and its officers helped train a substantial segment of the world in methods of administering government and running essential health, educational and financial services...
...After long testing of remote-control electrocardiography under routine conditions, including transmission of the signals by telephone line and computer evaluation, the U.S. Public Health Service is ready to extend its hookup from Washington to the emergency room of Connecticut's Hartford Hospital. After receiving the ECG signals, the computer will shoot a diagnosis back to Hartford within 15 seconds, whereas it might take hours to find an expert cardiologist to give a reading...
Freund said that the Supreme Court decision restricting public school prayers did not extend into all areas of public life. For example, he cited prayers in military establishments and in the senate as lying beyond the decisions of the Court...
...pilots in Viet Nam-like the airmen in the three other wars Americans have fought this century-laugh off the dangers they face each day in enemy skies. Yet as Hanoi intensifies its flak and missile defenses, they realize all too well the likelihood of death or capture and extend a special kind of respect to those who have eluded both. Into the flyer's pantheon of heroes last week went two young Navy lieutenants. One-whose name the Pentagon withheld to protect other prisoners who might have helped him-escaped from a Laos-based prison camp. He spent...
...crumple and be shortened by 24 in. Through an optimum setup of framing, wheels, fenders, hood, engine and other components, Ford Safety Engineer Harold Brilmyer aims to "work out a sequential arrangement so that everything collapses in a prearranged form." This may sound like small comfort, but it could extend the duration of the typical collision from 90 milliseconds to 125 milliseconds, cut impact forces by 20% to 30%, and thus reduce passenger injuries...