Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appears on the radar screen, fighters are scrambled to intercept and obtain a visual would Even if potentially hostile, an intruder would be let alone as long area a remained outside national airspace, which is the area lying above a country's landmass and coastal waters. (It can extend from three to 200 miles out from the coast, depending on the territorial limit a country claims. For the U.S. it is three nautical miles; for the U.S.S.R. twelve.) If that invisible boundary is violated, use law endorsed by both superpowers prohibits the use of force except under extreme conditions...
This sort of eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation goes on all the time, especially over American Air Defense Identification Zones (ADIZ), which extend several hundred miles along U.S. borders and are closely monitored for national security reasons. Since last January, 77 Soviet planes have entered the Atlantic Coast ADIZ while on nonstop flights from the U.S.S.R. to Cuba. Their aim has been to pick up U.S. radar frequencies and to record how long it takes for U.S. fighters to respond. U.S. reconnaissance planes have done the same thing near the U.S.S.R. border and have triggered the firing of more than...
...partly owing to Kasdan's easy wit and trove of B-movie lore. His debut as a writerdirector, Body Heat, updated the Double Indemnity plot with equal measures of fire and ice. The Big Chill marks another sure step forward for Kasdan. This is a movie that can extend outside the confines of movie genres, with characters whose lives seep outside the screen frame, who persuade the viewer to care about their pasts and futures...
...origins of the movement extend back to Mendelssohn's historic revival of J.S. Bach in 1829. Even so, throughout the last century Bach was known primarily to the most sophisticated musicians, and only a handful of Mozart's myriad works were regularly performed. With composers like Schumann, Brahms and Wagner churning out masterwork after masterwork, there was little need to revive the past. But as the musical repertory gradually evolved into a monument to the 19th century, inquiring performers began to look backward. Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940), an English musician and instrumentmaker, rediscovered the nearly forgotten world...
...leaders signed an agreement to protect their 2,000-mile common border from pollution. Reagan announced that the U.S. would extend commodity credits so that Mexico could buy more American agricultural produce during the current drought. But foreign policy seemed to overshadow everything else. Playing down the differences, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz said that both countries were in agreement "at the level of general principle," but held divergent views about "particular tactical moves." The debate, essentially, is about whether to speak softly or carry a big stick...