Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overextended small farmer is getting squeezed most. When his finances are so precarious that even the sympathetic local banker will not extend credit, he turns to the Farmers Home Administration, an agency of the Department of Agriculture. That lender of last resort finds that 51% of its one-year operating loans were delinquent at the beginning of this year, compared with 26% in 1979. In the past three years, the number of delinquent loans has nearly tripled, to 218,054, and their value has multiplied nearly five times, to $14.9 billion. While the FHA has begun foreclosure proceedings against only...
Since the Israelis forcibly reunified Jerusalem in 1967, the population has climbed from 275,000 to 407,000, and more than 1.1 million visitors pour in every year. The fortress-like apartment towers clustered on the once bare hills surrounding the city now extend to the very edge of the desert wilderness where Satan tempted Jesus; and though the walled Old City surrounding the holy shrines is still redolent of cinnamon and roasting lamb and hashish and donkey turds, the twisting alleys leading onto the Via Dolorosa (Sorrowful Way) are covered with paving stones rather than mud. Even the cats...
Striving to get out the vote, Duarte argues that a Christian Democrat majority would give him a mandate to extend the ambitious land-reform program begun in 1980 and increase his control over the right-wing security forces that are blamed for many of the country's political killings. He rejects negotiations with the guerrillas, calling on them to recognize that "the solution here is not a violent or a military one, but a democratic...
...wanted to understand why the world is what it is and how it works," says Hawking, now a successor to Sir Isaac Newton as Lucastan Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. Since, according to Hawking, "we already know completely the laws that govern normal matter," his goal is to extend such knowledge to extreme conditions. Nothing is more extreme than a black hole...
...with Salisbury caused Brutus to apply late for an extension of his visa to stay in the United States. Although he notified INS that he was applying late and was assured that he would be excused, immigration officials later cited Brutus's tardiness as one reason for refusing to extend his visa...