Word: extended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This more radical kind of dishonesty was apparent at least as early as Ford's first press conference, the one that everyone liked because it symbolized a new presidential openness. A reporter asked whether Ford would extend Nixon's policy of detente as far as overtures toward Cuba--the Cuban government suggested that it would welcome such overtures. Ford indicated that though he, personally, had nothing against accepting the Cuban revolution, there was nothing that he could do about it--at least not yet--because of U.S. loyalty to the Organization of American States, which had voted to expel Cuba...
...were cut off as the result of the basic policies of the Allende government. Mr. [Robert] McNamara [head of the World Bank and former U.S. secretary of defense] gave a speech or a press statement last summer in which he explained that the World Bank does not extend credit if there is an expropriation without compensation, if the economic policies of the country do not make it a good credit risk, and a third reason which I have now forgotten...
...warden wickedly parodied every businessman who ever exhorted his sales force with sporting metaphors, every overstuffed daddy who has lived out his fantasies of athletic glory by impersonating Vince Lombardi on a Little League field. The difference here is that the man has real guns, real power to extend and with hold favors. He is a genuinely frightening cautionary figure. It is too bad that the lessons his behavior might teach are often lost in the uproar of a movie that most of the time caters to the low instincts it intermittently tries to criticize. &183; Richard Schickel
Walter Sullivan is known widely as one of the city's premier professional politicians, with family ties to Cambridge government that extend long into history...
...tenants had demonstrated in large numbers at the State House last spring to urge legislators to extend the local option law indefinitely. That law allows "middle-sized" cities such as Cambridge, Somerville and Brookline to impose rent controls. During one demonstration, the groups scored lawmakers for "postponing debate on the issue until after the gubernatorial election." They said a nine-month extension would remove the pressures for politicians to take a stand on rent controls...