Word: extended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...higher prices, resulting from damages to the crop during last winter's severe cold spell. So far, the commission has received some 85,000 letters about Bryant, backing her 3 to 1. This week the commission will meet in Lakeland, Fla., to decide whether or not to extend her contract as its $100,000-a-year sunshine spokeswoman...
...Washington, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance announced that the U.S., which has observed the 1963 voluntary arms embargo, will extend that policy to cover all previously exempt police and military equipment, including spare parts and maintenance gear. In addition, said Vance, as evidence of "our national concern" over "the regrettable recent steps" taken by South Africa, the U.S. will withdraw the naval attache from its embassy in Pretoria and recall the commercial officer from its consulate in Johannesburg...
...Berger's rigid interpretation, the post-Civil War Congress was dominated by "Negrophobia"; it was willing to extend to blacks rudimentary civil rights, such as equal punishment for crimes and the right to own property, but did not intend the 14th Amendment to grant them equal access to voting booths, schools, juries or jobs. Thus in Berger's accounting, when Congress enacted the provision including blacks as full citizens in apportioning House seats, it did not mean to compel the former Confederacy actually to give blacks the vote. Quite the opposite, he says: the provision meant to reduce...
...order is new evidence that the court may be unwilling to extend any more constitutional protections for journalists. The court had ruled in 1972 that reporters can be compelled to testify in cases involving crimes they have witnessed, but never extended that requirement to other legal proceedings. If courts in other states embrace the Idaho decision, any aggrieved citizen can force a reporter to disclose his source-or go to jail-simply by suing for libel...
...school committee, which is split, 3-3, liberal-independent). Vellucci still plays by his own rules, however, often holding out his vote until the final moment for the sake of political and dramatic effect. School Committeeman Glenn S. Koocher '71 says Vellucci waited six months before agreeing to extend the superintendent's contract, and thus forced three committee liberals to refrain from publicly criticizing...