Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immediate aftermath of Apollo 8 was a land rush of follow-up flights. Said Thomas Paine, acting administrator of NASA in 1968: "We are at the onset of a program of space flights that will extend through many generations." Since then, there have been other triumphs and other disasters. Yet the wonder of that lunar vista has remained a lure and an accomplishment, a sign that amid riot, war and discontent, something was still worth striving...
...Soviets have a vested interest in making good on the antique IOUs. In recent times, U.S. banks have loaned money to the Soviets only for short periods. But the Soviets hope that a repayment of the old debt may encourage some U.S. banks to extend longer-term loans, as European and Japanese financial institutions have done over the past five years to the tune of $11 billion...
...message was the same. "Our rights extend beyond the West Bank and Gaza," said the head of the PLO political section...
First, there is the cult of the body, whose origins extend to the physical fitness craze of the last decade, but since then it has hypertrophied into a multibillion-dollar industry of fad diets and workouts, swank running shoes and high-tech exercise equipment. Who has not known someone whose motto is "no pain, no gain" or someone who scrutinizes their muscles for their tone...
...Soft Batch cookies, Pepperidge Farm's Goldfish crackers and Sunshine's Hydrox cookies, is prompted by health considerations -- and rising consumer pressure. Manufacturers have long been partial to the balmy-sounding vegetable oils -- coconut, palm-kernel and palm -- mainly because they impart a nongreasy taste and texture and extend the shelf life of products. But they are also high in saturated fat, the prime booster of blood-cholesterol levels. Coconut oil contains 92% saturated fat, palm-kernel oil 86% and palm oil 51%. In comparison, the damaging fat makes up only 27% of cottonseed oil, 15% of soybean...