Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Columbia and the space-shuttle system it introduces could contribute substantially to the domestic economy, extend U.S. capacities to find mineral resources on earth, survey the oceans, keep track of weather patterns and help bring solar energy down to earth. The most compelling of the early projects for the shuttle will be placing in orbit in 1985, if all goes well, a 22,500-lb. telescope that, free of the haze of the earth, will be able to see seven times farther than the world's most powerful instruments and perhaps solve some riddles of the universe...
Back in Washington that evening. Carter again tackled the issues that are his responsibility until Reagan is inaugurated. The President has nearly finished signing or vetoing the bills sent to him by the lameduck session of Congress, with decisions left only on how much protection to extend to the U.S. steel industry and whether to allow banks to open branches in other states. The President also was, as always, preoccupied with the hostage crisis in Iran, giving final approval to a State Department message that was dispatched to Tehran through Algerian intermediaries (see WORLD...
...power of truth and simplicity in the Gospel." Stressing his support for the Seymour Society's current, more personal, orientation, he argues that the bulk of the church's work should be providing people with spiritual tools to allow them to prevent self-destructive habits. "Only then should it extend its energies to politics," he says...
...there is no particular trick in making a buffoon of federal regulations. Things grow more problematical when one tries to extend such reasonable complaints to a general political philosophy, and talk?as Reagan does talk?of putting "the Federal Government back in the business of doing the things the Constitution says are its prime functions: to keep internal order, to protect us in our national security from outside aggression and to provide a stable currency for our commerce and trade." Very well. But such a definition omits the "general welfare" clause. And in practical terms, Reagan undoubtedly does not intend...
...Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) voted almost unanimously yesterday to extend by six weeks the period in which a student can change a course from pass-fail to graded...