Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...approached, the ERA was still three states short of ratification. Intense lobbying by amendment advocates persuaded Congress to extend the deadline another three years, to June...
Visa and MasterCard offer their gold cards through banks, which check the credit record of applicants and extend borrowing lines of at least $5,000. Banks market standard MasterCard and Visa cards as well. American Express gold carries a credit line of at least $2,000 and is issued jointly by the firm and participating banks. American Express green, however, is offered directly by the company...
...build-up. I think you have to approach that by asking what is it that you want from your nuclear weapons. And clearly you want them to provide deterrence, but you want more from them than that. You want them to be able to support the umbrella which you extend over allies such as Europe and Japan, and this is called extended deterrence. And you do want them occasionally to bolster your diplomacy. And I think that's becoming more and more difficult in a world of party....I'd want to see nuclear forces which are relatively invulnerable...
...fighting went on, the international implications of the crisis continued to grow. In Brussels, Britain received a strong boost from its European allies. Eight of ten members of the European Community, including France and West Germany, voted to extend indefinitely economic sanctions that the Community had leveled against Argentina following its April 2 invasion of the islands. British Foreign Minister Francis Pym declared himself "grateful" at the decision, even though Ireland and Italy refused to join in the measure...
...crisis arose, ironically, only one month after Britain's European partners had, in a dramatic show of solidarity, voted unanimously to impose sanctions against Argentina for one month. Last week's first rebuff came when foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg reluctantly agreed to extend those sanctions for only seven more days instead of the additional month the British had sought. Italy and Ireland did not go along with even that limited measure. But a crueler blow fell the next day in Brussels, where Community agriculture ministers voted 7 to 1 (with Denmark and Greece abstaining) to override...