Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...face, the action of the freshman Republican Senator from Wisconsin was callously opportunistic. He was endangering passage of a bill that would extend unemployment benefits to jobless workers in 27 states and create an estimated 400,000 jobs. In behalf of the nation's well-heeled banking lobby, he hung an amendment on the jobs bill that would cancel the scheduled July 1 start of the withholding of 10% of income from interest and dividends. This is a reform designed to reduce tax cheating and raise nearly $11 billion in revenue in the next three years. Said Senate Finance...
...year, they have begun testing new models in almost every class of nuclear weapons," he said in a statement accompanying the study. "They are dramatically expanding their navy and air force, are training and equipping their ground forces for pre-emptive attack, and are using their military power to extend their influence and enforce their will in every corner of the globe...
...Senate is likely to act quickly: the jobs package is legislatively appended to a $5 billion bill to extend the additional unemployment-benefits program due to expire March 31. Meanwhile, House Democrats are readying for floor action in April a "phase 2" bill, which Democratic House Whip Thomas Foley says "is almost certain to go beyond what the Administration wants...
...clothes, flanked by ominous, smooth, black effigies of skyscrapers in perspective that recall the architectural renderings of Hugh Ferriss in the '30s. The trouble is that the execution does not carry the theatrical idea. Longo is not much of a modeler; his striking talent for rendering does not extend into three dimensions, so that on closer inspection the faces and bodies in the sculpture are pedantically inert, like those "solid photography" busts cut with a laser device...
Only in the winter, the teams take to the tanks. In the recesses of Newell Boat House, the sliding seats and oarlocks of an eight-man shell are duplicated not once but twice Oars extend into water contained in tanks on either side of the cement blocks that hold the oar locks and seats...