Word: extended
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There was another round of shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East last week, but for once Henry Kissinger was not involved. This time it was United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, who flew back and forth between Jerusalem and Damascus in a last-ditch effort to extend the mandate of the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force on the Golan Heights. At week's end, after exhaustive deliberations in the U.N. Security Council, Syria reluctantly agreed to extend the mandate...
...demonstration project by a Government-industry consortium, is called the "fast breeder." Astonishingly efficient (it uses 60% to 70% of the energy in its fuel v. 1% to 2% in today's nukes), and almost alchemic (it actually creates more fuel than it consumes), it would extend nuclear fuel supplies for centuries. But critics are attempting to stop the breeder, arguing that it not only creates hard-to-handle plutonium but also is siphoning enormous amounts of research and development money...
However, all this seems to mean nothing to Tom Sanders' charges. In the past two years the Crimson's cagers have met similar Eagle teams early in the season and proceeded to extend the "hot shots from across town" right down to the last minute before succumbing...
...join in the general adulation over your distinguished talk" led into a series of platitudinous challenges which, the professor alleged, conflicted with Bailyn's remarks. Then, a dizzying, anglophilic puree of revisionism: "Can you really say that this was a 'revolution?' ...And when the call came to Washington to extend the revolution south of its border, to Latin America--the answer was no...So wouldn't it be more useful for historians henceforth to refer to this not as the 'American Revolution' but as a quite natural movement in favor of the independence of the American portion of the British...
Brewster had an opportunity to extend his personal regrets to the students of Yale in an advertisement on the last page of the issue...