Word: extended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five dining halls serving hot breakfasts will extend their present hours of breakfast operation until 10 a.m., Fox said...
...judging someone whose tenure would extend over a great number of years and who has had a rather brief period of professional work in this field," Bok said, declining to comment further...
Luckily, for Boston sports fans, the RedSox are going to be on the road this weekend trying to extend their losing streak. Diehard fans can rejoice in the knowledge that the Yankees are equally inept and that the Toronto Blue Jays are going to take the American League pennant this year...
...thing to say genes help determine our height and weight. This is obvious. But to extend the argument beyond its scientific base and conclude that there must be complex genetic traits for altruism and aggression in human beings is going one step too far, too soon. The problem with The Selfish Gene is that it plays around with a subject which is controversial enough when dealt with honestly and factually. When, in the last chapter, Dawkins finally acknowledges that humans can "rebel" against their "selfish" genes, he fails to erase the overwhelming implications of the preceding ten chapters...
...aircraft, Lloyd's of London had expected the Boeing 747 to have at least two fatal accidents during its first two years. But only one commercial crash has occurred since the jet was introduced in 1970?in Nairobi in 1974?and that was because the Lufthansa pilot did not extend the proper wing flaps while taking off. The 747 was blameless, of course, for the catastrophe at Tenerife. Leaving aside Nairobi and Tenerife, a total of 297 of these jets, operated by 44 carriers, have flown 360 billion passenger-miles without fatalities...