Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generous fringe benefits extend to recreation. The company provides memberships for less than $5 a year in IBM country clubs in Poughkeepsie and Endicott, N.Y. There, employees can play golf, swim and participate in numerous other sports...
Daunting too were the three days of continuous celebrations. To extend a royal welcome, Queen Elizabeth II joined the 800 returning scholars and 600 spouses for a vast outdoor garden party. In the intermittent sunshine of an English June, the Queen circulated amiably through a riot of improbable hats and tropical colors rivaling those at Ascot; then she tucked into tea, eclairs and watercress sandwiches under a striped marquee...
...Government for, say, 80% to 95% of the grain that the land would have produced. The farmer can then sell that wheat for the highest price he can get. The national average this year: $3.50 per bu. Last week Agriculture Secretary John R. Block offered a plan to extend PIK to the 1984 harvest in order to make further reductions in the price-depressing wheat surplus...
Szafar of the Russian Research Center concurs, saying. "This kind of demonstration shows Walesa's not forgotten, even if Polish affairs are out of the headlines--it produces a feeling of solidarity with the Polish workers' movement. I'm very glad Harvard did decide to extend the invitation, no matter what the outcome...
...University of Missouri accepts applicants right out of high school for enrollment in a special eight-year program that integrates medical courses with undergraduate work. Boston University has a similar program that begins in the junior year of college. Another way of unpacking the curriculum would be to extend some of the course work into the three to six years that most doctors spend in residency programs. "Now that postgraduate training has become practically obligatory, there is no longer the urgency to teach everything in the first four years," says Dr. Thomas Meikle, dean of Cornell Medical College. Meikle prefers...