Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stark will begin the second year of his leave at Harvard next fall Bell said adding that the Israeli professor could request to extend his time in Cambridge throughout the three years scheduled for the program...
...Salvadoran military did not see things that way. Says a senior U.S. military officer: "By our standards, the Salvadoran army is just plain bad." That criticism does not extend to ordinary Salvadoran soldiers, whom a U.S. expert describes as "physically hard, readymade soldiers who like to be told what to do." But, says the expert, "the officer corps is bewildered. There are so many things wrong, you don't know where to start to fix them...
Frustratingly for both sides, the strip's most prized 1 million acres have been locked up under the Government's "wilderness study" classification. Faced with a limbo designation that can extend for years, the environmentalists and developers, traditionally at loggerheads, took the unusual step of negotiating with each other. The result: an unprecedented agreement that is the basis of a bill introduced in Congress last month as the Arizona Strip District Wilderness Act. Says Russell Butcher of the National Parks and Conservation Association, a private environmental group, who was a key figure in initiating the discussions: "Considering...
Twelve years later a partnership was created among the museum, the Rouse Co., a real estate development firm, and the city and state of New York. The intention: to extend the museum's influence over the entire Seaport area, incorporating a marketplace that would pay the staggering cost of restoration and maintenance. It was rough going; the dream often threatened to capsize in the winds of New York bureaucracy. But four years later, a host of political figures and visitors gathered to ratify the occasion...
...private research centers and an affiliated university. Founded in 1963 as part of a national "seeds for the future" effort in science and technology, Tsukuba Science City now has an annual government budget of $600 million and a staff of 7,000 scientists, engineers and technicians. Their investigations extend from high-energy physics (using a 12 billion electron volt accelerator) to searches for new lightweight, heat-resistant materials. In one cavernous seven-story building nicknamed the "rainmaker house," researchers are simulating weather in order to understand rain-induced mudslides, a recurring problem in Japan. Another laboratory contains a huge "shaking...