Word: extended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proclamation, Khanh once again called for liberation of the North Vietnamese from Communism, declaring: "We are ready to extend our assistance." With that, he was off on an inspection tour of the northern front, where from a border observation post he gazed across the Ben Hai River at North Vietnamese installations...
...course even fewer will realize that anti-poverty is undersalaried and hence will be undernourished. That the $495 million appropriation is less than the $15 billion spent on the RS-70 bomber fiasco alone. That the appropriation cannot possibly extend the proposed benefits of job-training, education, financial aid, and domestic Peace Corps to the 35 million men, women, and children whose per capita income was only $590 in 1962 (against $1900 per capita for the nation as a whole). And that the benefits themselves are not enough...
...sales company. Most important, G.E. obtains a secure European base from which to battle comfortably ensconced IBM for a continental computer market expected to reach $3 billion in sales by 1970. No sooner had the French discussions ended last week than G.E. executives moved on to Milan to extend that base. Italy's Olivetti, which makes small computers and office machines and is also having difficulties, is anxious for the same sort of help. Preparing to extend it, G.E. seemed likely to accomplish more by its two bits of bargaining than it had managed in two years of independent...
...electoral reform bill, as proposed by Castello Branco last month, originally made no provision for extending the President's term. He wanted revision of the electoral laws to require that a presidential candidate win a popular majority for election; if no candidate had a majority, Congress would then pick a winner. But many of the revolution's leaders seized upon the provision as a chance to extend the President's term...
...descended to him." Roth decrees that Henry must sleep on a pallet on the floor. This primal wrong and first denial of equality leaves Roth in "a rigid fury of the grief he could not explain, the shame he would not admit." Just how far Mississippi's troubles extend back into history is examined in Absalom, Absalom! That history is inexorably racial. The novel mercilessly strips away the romantic Southern mythology to reveal the brutal repression of slavery, the arrogance of plantation owners who could summon Negro girls to their beds as if they were ordering the carriage brought...