Word: extended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those who say we should prosecute Mr. Nixon, I say that the man is not an "ordinary" citizen. He has been subjected to the largest torrent of criticism and hate ever directed at one individual. We should not extend the Nixon family's agony. Mr. Nixon has had punishment enough...
Yoshida now plans to extend the same largesse to foreign employees - because, he explains, "all along we have tried to inculcate a sense of being a part of the YKK family." Profit sharing will soon be offered to 80 YKK workers in Canada, then to 400 in the U.S. and 3,500 in 27 other countries round the world...
...people who run the Faculty are perceptably different from their central administration counterparts across the way in Mass Hall; they're older and less highpowered, and their ambitions in life generally don't extend past the Charles River. Their job is in some ways more delicate than that of the people in Mass Hall, because Harvard's 750-odd faculty members are an eccentric, intelligent, anti-administrative and easily bruised...
...country. Moses personally selected all the building materials, and many of the smaller touches--wrought-iron direction markers, for example--came from his imagination. But it was one thing to give Moses unlimited power to transform a deserted sandbar like Jones Beach and another to allow him to extend it over previously inhabited regions. Moses's expressways tore the guts out of neighborhoods and his urban renewal projects forced a quarter of a million New Yorkers out of their homes...
...State Department came up with a compromise in 1970. Then Under Secretary of State Elliot Richardson proposed that all coastal nations be allowed to extend control of offshore waters to a depth of 650 ft. Seaward from that point, they might develop undersea oil or ore reserves, but only as "trustees" for a so-called seabed authority representing the international community, which would reap up to 50% of the profits from deep-sea exploitation...