Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coordinate its responses, so that its resources - material and spiritual - can be summoned forth effectively to meet the challenge of international lawlessness generally and Soviet ambitions particularly. He has to raise a standard to which free people will rally, not only to defend their own freedom but to extend it throughout the world...
...University can do more, both on a direct and indirect level. It can provide floodlights and extend patrol hours. It can also encourage women themselves to take basic steps to overcome the threat of violence and recover their independence--by providing free and easily accessible self-defense courses. The present self-defense course given by Arthur Fitzhugh of HUPD offers a glimmer of hope. However, it is not regularly given and depends on the student's ability to rent necessary equipment, secure a room and guarantee attendance of twenty people...
...doubt you could do it," Wilson says. "Once you extend the right of democratic rule, you can't take it back. You could try to persuade people, but I'm not optimistic." Price adds that since "the whole trend of the nation for 200 years has been toward direct democracy, it'd be very hard to rationalize going back to what people would call 'smoke-filled rooms.'" But Mansfield says, "It needs to be explained to people that there's a correlation between the mediocre choices we have now, and the primary process...
...Stevens' plants, the company will pay about $3 million to workers in Roanoke Rapids in compensation for wage hikes withheld for the past 15 months. The A.C.T.W.U. also won promotion by seniority, a checkoff for union dues, better grievance procedures and arbitration of disputes. While the union may extend the contract to other Stevens plants where it wins elections or is declared bargaining agent by court order, it agreed not to recruit on company property for 18 months. The union also ended its four-year boycott of Stevens products and its campaign of corporate harassment of the company...
...this is not, and some of the jokes are more than nine days old. But there is promise here: the young stars, Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari, know when to underplay a line and when to run with it. If Thompson and Zwick can find inventive ways to extend this single-joke situation, Bosom Buddies could be worth watching...