Word: extended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...provided for lawyers' fees for "private attorneys general" in a number of laws-notably Title II of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bans discrimination in places of public accommodation. White would leave it to the nation's legislators rather than the courts to decide whether to extend the principle. One self-appointed public attorney general, Ralph Nader, quickly vowed to ask Congress to do just that. Otherwise, he says, the ruling "is going to have a very depressive impact on the ability of public interest lawyers to litigate...
Pritsak said he would not disclose the names of the six other Ukrainian scholars, but that he will extend the invitation to them again next year...
...largely Democratic majority of House members, however, was reluctant to set an unnecessary precedent that might extend presidential warmaking powers; the bill was defeated by a vote of 246 to 162. Ford was outraged and declared that the vote reflected "fear and misunderstanding, rather than charity and compassion." He demanded that Congress act quickly on a new aid bill, arguing that "to do otherwise would be a repudiation of the finest principles and traditions of America...
...think there is any way to stop salsa," says Palmieri. "The day is coming when rock bands will find themselves playing opposite a Latin orchestra." Although it has been developing for 30 years, salsa is a new musical adventure for most Latinos as well as for Americans. Its roots extend back to Cuban dance music of previous decades like the rumba. After 1961, when the U.S. suspended relations with Cuba, emigrant Latin musicians and mainland-born Puerto Ricans gradually fused their own style with elements of American rock, soul and especially jazz. The result was salsa's singing dances...
...while visiting Washington, Saudia Arabia's petroleum minister, Ahmed Zaki Yamani, warned Americans that in the event of a new war in the Middle East, or even some vaguely defined "situation like war," the Arabs would not hesitate to impose another oil embargo on the U.S. and to extend it to Japan and Western Europe if they dared to share their supplies with...