Word: extended
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...simultaneously advocating higher taxes, not a stand any politician wants to take in an election year. On the other hand, the White House is aware of the danger that a prolonged congressional deadlock, and the fear of deficits still greater than Reagan predicts, could raise interest rates and extend the recession close to the November elections, which could mean misery for Republicans, not to mention the nation...
...question and answer period after his lecture, Wilson responded to a set of emotional questions with complex and nonpolitical answers. The solution to scientific controversies, he concluded, "is not the curtailment of science. The solution is to extend hard science--value-free science," he said, adding that "there is no boundary between the natural sciences and the social sciences...
Instead of job programs, Bradley suggests a short-term remedy of extending unemployment benefits; he predicts there will be growing pressure from Congress within the next two months as the 2.5 million people who lost their jobs late last year begin to run out of benefits. But in a meeting of the Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs last week, in which unemployment was on the agenda, Reagan and his aides did not discuss the proposal to extend benefits. Said a White House aide: "We feel we need to demonstrate concern for unemployment, but without reinstating benefits that would affect...
...White House to take immediate steps to ease unemployment. Among the AFL-CIO'S recommendations: revive the emergency local public works program, budgeted at $6 billion in 1975 but not funded since then; restore CETA public service jobs; and create a new reconstruction finance corporation that would extend loans, loan guarantees and tax benefits to hard-hit companies in basic industries. The union also wants to get more help for the long-term jobless by renewing the 13 weeks of nationwide unemployment benefits that the Administration canceled last year...
Benigno S. Aquino, a fellow at the Center for International Affairs and a former Philippine senator, said the treaty will allow Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos to "extend his long dictatorial arm and immobilize anti-Marcos forces...