Word: extended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hold at one time three squadrons of fighter-bombers, 20 KC-135 jet transports, one squadron of air-defense fighters and 120 C-123 transport planes, not to mention the B-52s which could fly from its extra-thick runways. Sattahip's fuel pipeline system will eventually extend to Korat, where the U.S. Army's 9th Logistical Command has already stockpiled enough guns, tanks, trucks and ammunition for a full division. U.S. and Thai engineers are constructing the Bangkok Bypass, a strategic highway to carry vital traffic northward past the capital. It will have the side effect...
...must await congressional action, but there is little chance that Congress will turn down such a princely gesture. Most likely spot will be an area adjacent to the National Gallery. Lady Bird is known to be specially taken with the idea of an outdoor sculpture garden that would extend across the three-block width of the Mall, be available to millions of tourists...
...negativism, he says that the "central error of contemporary Republicanism is the tendency to regard massive Federal Government as an adversary." In The Challenge of Change Brooke presents poverty, civil rights, and urban renewal as three of America's most pressing problems and then offers general approaches that just extend the present Administration programs. Among his few concrete proposals is a suggestion to increase the total amount of foreign aid in order to devote more capital to industrial and agricultural development...
...Rojas' opposition group in Congress effectively blocked all government legislation. By pushing a "bloodless revolution" of economic and social reforms, Lleras Restrepo hopes to lure some of the opposition to his side and win the two-thirds majority he needs to legislate. Otherwise, he seems prepared to extend the state of siege that Valencia declared last May, and run his country by decree if necessary...
...area where the stakes are life and death, but where the modern doctor knows that nothing is finally certain, he can still only say to his patient: "Trust me." Today's patient, who is sophisticated enough to realize his doctor's limitations, is willing to extend that trust-but in return he wants some understanding and sympathy, the vital ingredients that nowadays are too often missing. That exchange should be a compact between the patient and his doctor. It is a compact less complete than the old one, which was based on the patient's total faith...