Word: extended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supporters seem to be running out of time: the measure will die if not ratified by 38 states before March 22, 1979. This week the amendment's backers will begin putting pressure on Congress to extend the deadline for ratification. On Wednesday, March 22, they will try to buttonhole Senators and Representatives; they intend to do so again on the 22nd of every month until Congress acts or the ERA expires. Although Justice Department lawyers believe Congress has the right to extend the deadline without requiring that the ratification process start over from scratch, some legal scholars disagree. Thus...
...community is trying to smear him as antiSemitic. Retorts Rabbi Alexander Schindler. chairman of the Conference of Presidents: "That's an outrageous overreaction on his part. Nobody called him anti-Semitic or implied that. Disagreement is not racist." His conference colleagues back Schindler: last week they voted to extend his chairmanship indefinitely, as a way of protesting White House pressure on him for airing Jewish doubts about Carter's policies...
...area, and a Japanese group has announced plans to build a health spa and longevity research center there. But it will take more than a sampling of the Vilcabambans' vaunted regimen of hard work, low-calorie and low-animal-fat diet and high-altitude living to extend the normal life span. Concedes Leaf: "This lifestyle, although it kept them healthy and vigorous, didn't contribute to longevity...
...maintenance workers' last contract ran out on December 7, but the University and the trades council have continued to extend the contract by mutual consent. As negotiations stretched into March, a federal mediator was called in who attended the last two bargaining sessions...
...Carter. Sen. Clairborne Pell (D-R.I.) and Sen. Harrison Williams (D-N.J.) are leading the fight for a somewhat modified version of the bill in Congress. The bill as it stands now would increase the maximum award under the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant program (BEOG) and would extend eligibility for those grants to the $15,000 to $25,000 income range for the first time...